Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8508.0103 · Subchapter C. POWERS AND DUTIES
GENERAL POWERS RELATING TO WORKS AND WATER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The authority may exercise all the rights and powers of an independent agency and a body politic and corporate to construct, maintain, and operate, inside this state and in the watershed of the Sulphur River and its tributaries inside or outside the boundaries of the authority, any work considered essential:
(1) to the authority's operation; and
(2) for its administration in controlling, storing, preserving, and distributing the water, including storm water and floodwater, of the Sulphur River and its tributary streams.
(b) The authority may exercise the power of control and regulation over the water of the Sulphur River and its tributaries as this state may exercise, subject to the constitution and laws of this state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 468 (H.B. 4172), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8508.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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