Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8183.155 · Subchapter D. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
EMINENT DOMAIN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To carry out a power provided by this chapter, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire the fee simple title to land and other property and easements, inside or outside the district, including land needed for a reservoir, dam, or flood easement above the probable high-water line around a reservoir.
(b) The district must exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code.
(c) The district is a municipal corporation for the purposes of Chapter 21, Property Code.
(d) The district may not exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property owned by any other political subdivision.
(e) In exercising the power of eminent domain against a person that has the power of eminent domain or a receiver or trustee for that person, the district may acquire an easement only and not the fee title.
(f) The board shall determine the amount of and the type of interest in land, other property, or easements to be acquired under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.10, eff. April 1, 2009.
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