Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 9039.151 · Subchapter D. GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
ELECTIONS REGARDING TAXES OR BONDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district may issue, without an election, bonds and other obligations secured by:
(1) revenue other than ad valorem taxes; or
(2) contract payments described by Section 9039.153.
(b) The district must hold an election in the manner provided by Chapters 49 and 51, Water Code, to obtain voter approval before the district may impose an ad valorem tax or issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes.
(c) The district may not issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes to finance a road project unless the issuance is approved by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose.
(d) The district may not hold an election to authorize the issuance of bonds payable from ad valorem taxes to finance water and wastewater facilities to provide water and wastewater service for uses other than mining, quarrying, or water resource development, retention, and distribution unless each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located and the owners of land in the district enter into a development agreement under Section 212.172, Local Government Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 583 (S.B. 2463), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009.
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