Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8503.001 · Chapter 8503. LOWER COLORADO RIVER AUTHORITY
CREATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A conservation and reclamation district to be known as the "Lower Colorado River Authority" is created. The authority is a governmental agency and a body politic and corporate.
(b) The authority is created under and is essential to accomplish the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including the control, storing, preservation, and distribution of the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries within the boundaries of the authority for irrigation, generation of electric energy and power, and other useful purposes; the reclamation and irrigation of arid, semiarid, and other lands needing irrigation; the development of parks on lands owned or acquired by the authority; and the conservation and development of the forests, water, and electric power in this state.
(c) Nothing in this chapter or in any other law shall be construed as authorizing the authority to levy or collect taxes or to create any indebtedness payable out of taxes or in any way to pledge the credit of this state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 996, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Renumbered from Water Code, Section 222.001 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921 (H.B. 3167), Sec. 13.006(b), eff. September 1, 2007.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8503.htm
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