Tex. Aux. Water Laws art. 7850 · Chapter 3. WATER CONTROL AND PRESERVATION DISTRICTS
EMINENT DOMAIN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The right of eminent domain is hereby conferred upon all districts for the purpose of condemning and acquiring the right of way over and through all lands, private and public, except property used for cemetery purposes, necessary for making and maintaining dams, bulkheads, jetties, locks, gates and all other improvements necessary and proper for such construction. Such right shall extent to any county in this State. All such condemnation proceedings shall be under the direction of the directors and in the name of the district; and all compensation and damages adjudicated in such proceedings shall be paid out of the "Construction and Maintenance Fund."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1918, 35th Leg., 4th C.S., p. 95.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WL/htm/WL.3.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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