Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 399.007 · Chapter 399. MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY WATER AND ENERGY IMPROVEMENT REGIONS
DESIGNATION OF REGION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a local government may determine that it is convenient and advantageous to designate an area of the local government as a region within which the authorized representative of the local government and record owners of real property may enter into written contracts to impose assessments to repay the financing by owners of qualified projects on the owners' property and, if authorized by the local government program, finance the qualified project.
(b) An area designated as a region by the governing body of a local government under this section:
(1) may include the entire local government; and
(2) must be located wholly within the local government's jurisdiction.
(c) For purposes of determining a municipality's jurisdiction under Subsection (b)(2), the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction may be included.
(d) A local government may designate more than one region. If multiple regions are designated, the regions may be separate, overlapping, or coterminous.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 416 (S.B. 385), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 577 (H.B. 3187), Sec. 3, eff. June 16, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.399.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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