Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 43.080 · Subchapter D. ANNEXATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS
MUNICIPAL BONDS USED TO CARRY OUT PURPOSES OF ABOLISHED CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to each municipality that under any other law, including Section 43.075, abolishes a conservation and reclamation district created under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, including a water control and improvement district, fresh water supply district, or municipal utility district.
(b) If, before its abolition, the district voted to issue bonds to provide waterworks, sanitary sewer facilities, or drainage facilities and if some or all of the bonds were not issued, sold, and delivered before the abolition, the governing body of the municipality may issue and sell municipal bonds in an amount not to exceed the amount of the unissued district bonds to carry out the purposes for which the district bonds were voted.
(c) The bonds must be authorized by ordinance of the governing body of the municipality. The ordinance must provide for the levy of taxes on all taxable property in the municipality to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds when due. The bonds must be sold at not less than par value and accrued interest, and must mature, bear interest, and be subject to approval by the attorney general and to registration by the comptroller of public accounts as provided by law for other general obligation bonds of the municipality.
(d) A bond that is approved, registered, and sold as provided by this section is incontestable.
(e) This section repeals a municipal charter provision to the extent of a conflict with this section. This section does not affect the authority of a municipality to issue bonds for other purposes.
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History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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