Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 379B.002 · Chapter 379B. DEFENSE BASE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES
ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSOR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality by resolution may establish an authority. The resolution must include a legal description of the base property. On adoption of the resolution, the authority is established as a special district and political subdivision of this state, with a boundary coterminous with the base property described in the resolution.
(b) When establishing an authority, the municipality may designate the authority in the municipality's resolution to be the successor in interest to a nonprofit corporation organized under the Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12). On adoption of the resolution, the corporation is dissolved and the authority succeeds to all rights and liabilities of that corporation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1221, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1999. Renumbered from Local Government Code Sec. 378.002 by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1275, Sec. 2(108), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.24, eff. April 1, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.379B.htm
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