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

Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8515.0302: ADDITIONAL POWERS.

Text of section effective on April 01, 2027
(a) The authority may:
(1) control, develop, store, and preserve the waters and flood waters of the Upper Guadalupe River and its tributaries inside or outside the authority for a beneficial or useful purpose;
(2) purchase, acquire, build, construct, improve, extend, reconstruct, repair, and maintain any dam, structure, waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, storm sewer system, drainage system, irrigation system, building, waterway, pipeline, distribution system, ditch, lake, pond, reservoir, plant, and recreational facility for public use, and any other facility or equipment in aid of a purpose described by Subdivision (1);
(3) purchase or otherwise acquire a necessary site, easement, right-of-way, land, or other property necessary for a purpose described by Subdivision (1); and
(4) sell water and other services.
(b) The authority may use any practical means to exercise a right, power, privilege, or function of the authority.
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 203 (H.B. 1615), Sec. 1.02, eff. April 1, 2027.

Where this section sits in the code

SPECIAL DISTRICT LOCAL LAWS CODE
TITLE 6. WATER AND WASTEWATER
SUBTITLE G. RIVER AUTHORITIES
CHAPTER 8515. UPPER GUADALUPE RIVER AUTHORITY
SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES

Text of section effective on April 01, 2027

(a) The authority may:

(1) control, develop, store, and preserve the waters and flood waters of the Upper Guadalupe River and its tributaries inside or outside the authority for a beneficial or useful purpose;

(2) purchase, acquire, build, construct, improve, extend, reconstruct, repair, and maintain any dam, structure, waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, storm sewer system, drainage system, irrigation system, building, waterway, pipeline, distribution system, ditch, lake, pond, reservoir, plant, and recreational facility for public use, and any other facility or equipment in aid of a purpose described by Subdivision (1);

(3) purchase or otherwise acquire a necessary site, easement, right-of-way, land, or other property necessary for a purpose described by Subdivision (1); and

(4) sell water and other services.

(b) The authority may use any practical means to exercise a right, power, privilege, or function of the authority.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 203 (H.B. 1615), Sec. 1.02, eff. April 1, 2027.

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