Tex. Gov't Code § 1505.076 · Subchapter B. BONDS FOR NAVIGATIONAL FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES
COMMISSIONERS OF NAVIGATION DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality may not construct, maintain, or operate a bridge over or across an entrance channel to a deepwater port operated by a navigation district without a permit issued by the commissioners of the district. Plans and specifications for the bridge must be jointly approved by the commissioners and the governing body of the municipality.
(b) If a bridge over or across the entrance channel to the port is constructed, maintained, or operated under this subchapter, the commissioners of the navigation district:
(1) may prescribe reasonable rules for the operation of the bridge in aid of navigation;
(2) shall exercise direct control over the maintenance and operation of the mechanical facilities of the bridge that provide clearance of the channel for vessels to enter or leave the port;
(3) may employ and direct all agencies in the management and operation of those facilities; and
(4) may appropriate and use any available revenue of the district to defray the cost of maintaining or operating the bridge.
(c) A municipality may not construct, maintain, or operate a bridge over or across an entrance channel to a deepwater port operated by a navigation district except as provided by this section.
(d) This section does not apply after land or a facility mortgaged by a municipality is sold on foreclosure.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.1505.htm
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