Tex. Gov't Code § 1301.001 · Chapter 1301. COUNTY BONDS
ISSUANCE AND AUTHORIZATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioners court of a county may issue bonds authorized under Subtitle A and Chapter 1251 to:
(1) build a county courthouse or jail;
(2) purchase suitable sites in the county and to construct buildings on the sites for homes or schools for dependent or delinquent children;
(3) establish county facilities for needy or indigent persons in the county;
(4) purchase and construct bridges for public purposes in the county or to cross a stream serving as the county's boundary line;
(5) improve and maintain the public roads in the county; or
(6) restore or maintain a county courthouse.
(b) The commissioners court may issue bonds only if a majority of the voters at an election to authorize bonds vote in favor of the proposition to authorize the bonds.
(c) Bonds to purchase or construct a bridge and to improve and maintain a public road may be submitted by the commissioners court and voted on as one proposition.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 358 (S.B. 186), Sec. 1, eff. June 7, 2021.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.1301.htm
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