Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 9041.105 · Subchapter C. POWERS AND DUTIES
POWERS AND DUTIES RELATED TO FILL PROJECTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district has the powers and duties provided by the general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 57, Water Code, applicable to levee improvement districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
(b) The district may:
(1) reclaim land in the district; and
(2) construct works, facilities, and improvements necessary to accomplish that purpose.
(c) The district may finance and contract for the construction of a fill project or for the acquisition of land for a fill project in the district, including drainage and reclamation.
(d) For the district's exercise of a power of or performance of a duty of a levee improvement district as provided by Subsection (c), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall consider the district to be a levee improvement district.
(e) For any fill or levee project located in the district and in the watershed of the San Jacinto River Basin, the district shall obtain approval for the plan from any state or federal agency with jurisdiction to permit a project of the same type and from any municipality with a right to divert state water from a point located between the district and Lake Houston.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1158 (S.B. 321), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.9041.htm
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