Tex. Water Code § 51.048 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
PURPOSES OF MASTER DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A master district may be created to conduct preliminary surveys and to develop a plan for the control and use of the water of any given stream, so that the improvements on one part of a watershed will be mechanically and economically related to all other improvements on the stream or its watershed.
(b) A master district also may be created to enable districts to pool their resources when necessary to economically:
(1) make preliminary surveys;
(2) adopt a plan to coordinate the plants, improvements, and facilities of the several constituent districts;
(3) provide the improvements and facilities proposed to be constructed and furnished by the master district;
(4) provide improvements for the common benefit of the several districts;
(5) enable the districts jointly to make purchases; or
(6) maintain or operate works for the common benefit of the several districts.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.51.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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