Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8104.204 · Subchapter E. POWERS AND DUTIES
CONTRACTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The authority may:
(1) contract with a public or private corporation, a political subdivision of this state, including the City of Baytown, or any other person, on terms the board considers desirable, fair, and advantageous, for the performance of the authority's rights and powers under this chapter; and
(2) contract with another person to transport that person's water.
(b) Before the authority enters into a contract under this section, other than a contract between the authority and the City of Baytown, the Baytown City Council must approve the contract.
(c) The period of a contract under Subsection (a)(1) may not exceed 40 years. The contract may provide that it continues in effect until bonds issued by the authority to finance the cost of facilities authorized by this chapter and refunding bonds issued in place of those bonds are paid.
(d) Section 552.014, Local Government Code, applies to any contract between the authority and a municipality, including the City of Baytown.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2007.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.77(23), eff. April 1, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8104.htm
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