{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-16.137","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Water Code § 16.137","heading":"CONTRACTS: GENERAL AUTHORITY.","body":"(a) The board may execute contracts to the full extent that contracts are constitutionally authorized and not limited for the design, management, acquisition, lease, construction, reconstruction, development, enlargement, operation, or maintenance, singularly or in any combination, of any existing or proposed project.\n(b) The board shall obtain the approval of the attorney general as to the legality of all contracts authorized under this subchapter to which the board is a party.\nAmended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.","path":["WATER CODE","TITLE 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION","SUBTITLE C. WATER DEVELOPMENT","CHAPTER 16. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO WATER DEVELOPMENT","SUBCHAPTER E. ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.16.htm#16.137","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:48Z","sha256":"ab63719c241307347eac6e6838f4b65dce1bdbb3570d82a11c38c6ec40cca119","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-16.136","next":"us-tx/tex.-water-code-16.138"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}