Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Local Government Code § 571.005: CESSION OF USE AND CONTROL OF STATE LAND.

Where this section sits in the code

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 13. WATER AND UTILITIES
SUBTITLE C. WATER PROVISIONS APPLYING TO MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 571. SEAWALLS AND LEVEES IN COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
SUBCHAPTER A. AUTHORITY OF COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY BORDERING GULF

The state cedes to a county or municipality that uses this subchapter the right to the use and control of as much of the land and sea bottom below high tide that the commissioners court or municipal authority considers necessary for the purposes prescribed by this subchapter.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 421.005 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.76(c)(1), eff. April 1, 2009.

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