Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 505.305 · Subchapter G. USE OF TAX PROCEEDS
PAYMENT FOR CLEANUP OF CONTAMINATED PROPERTY; ELECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The economic development office, with the assistance of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, may encourage a Type B corporation to use proceeds from the sales and use tax imposed under this chapter for the cleanup of contaminated property.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a Type B corporation may use proceeds from the sales and use tax for the cleanup of contaminated property only if the use of tax proceeds for that purpose is authorized by a majority of the voters voting at an election held in the authorizing municipality for that purpose. The ballot in an election held under this subsection shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "The use of sales and use tax proceeds for the cleanup of contaminated property."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.505.htm
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