Tex. Water Code § 49.222 · Subchapter H. POWERS AND DUTIES
EMINENT DOMAIN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A district or water supply corporation may acquire by condemnation any land, easements, or other property inside or outside the district boundaries, or the boundaries of the certificated service area for a water supply corporation, necessary for water, sanitary sewer, storm drainage, or flood drainage or control purposes or for any other of its projects or purposes, and may elect to condemn either the fee simple title or a lesser property interest.
(b) The right of eminent domain shall be exercised in the manner provided in Chapter 21, Property Code, except that a district or a water supply corporation shall not be required to give bond for appeal or bond for costs in any condemnation suit or other suit to which it is a party and shall not be required to deposit more than the amount of any award in any suit.
(c) The power of eminent domain may not be used for the condemnation of land for the purpose of acquiring rights to underground water or of water or water rights.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 715, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.49.htm
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Water Code § 49.222. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Special District Local Laws Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3877.108LIMITED EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Section 49.222, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3926.112EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Section 49.222, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3929.112EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Section 49.222, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3954.104EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Section 49.222, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 4001.0311EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Section 49.222, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8282.159EMINENT DOMAIN.Printed as Sections 49.222 and 49.223, Water Code
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