Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 572.0585 · Subchapter C. PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCIES
EMINENT DOMAIN IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A public utility agency has the power of eminent domain to be exercised in the manner provided by this section. The public utility agency may acquire by condemnation, for the use and benefit of the agency, land, easements, and property inside the service area of the public utility agency, necessary for water, sanitary sewer, storm drainage, or flood drainage or control purposes or for any other of its projects or purposes. The public utility agency may elect to condemn either the fee simple title or a lesser property interest.
(b) The power of eminent domain shall be exercised in the manner provided in Chapter 21, Property Code, except that the public utility agency is not required to:
(1) give bond for appeal or bond for costs in any condemnation suit or other suit to which it is a party; or
(2) deposit more than the amount of any award in any suit.
(c) The power of eminent domain may not be used for the condemnation of land for the purpose of acquiring rights to underground water or of water or water rights.
(d) This section only applies to a public utility agency domiciled in a county with a population of more than 1.2 million.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 990 (H.B. 4217), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.572.htm
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