{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-63.018","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Human Resources Code § 63.018","heading":"COMBINATION OF COUNTIES FACILITY: ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY; RULES FOR ADMISSION; RATES CHARGED.","body":"(a) In the instance of a facility being created by two or more counties, the commissioners courts of the forming counties may acquire, by gift, purchase, condemnation, or other means, real property for the purpose of locating the facility on such property. The method of acquisition and the amount of cost sharing between those counties shall be negotiated among the forming counties and reduced to contract. Such property to be acquired shall be situated within the boundaries of any one of the creating counties.\n(b) The board of trustees for a facility created by an organizational component of two or more counties shall establish rules and regulations for the admission of juveniles who are residents of other than the creating counties. The board may establish a rate of charges to be paid by the county of origin of the juvenile being placed into the facility, and those rates may be reduced for juveniles being admitted from a county that was part of the organizational component that created the facility.\nAdded by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 564, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.\nAmended by:\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 13.020, eff. September 1, 2009.","path":["HUMAN RESOURCES CODE","TITLE 3. FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN","SUBTITLE A. FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN","CHAPTER 63. RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES FOR CERTAIN DELINQUENT CHILDREN"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.63.htm#63.018","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:18Z","sha256":"b808707a8cdfcf44a75bd6732d92f68995760a70d33dfb71b40d4a219226af3f","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-63.017","next":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-63.019"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}