Tex. Water Code § 51.121 · Subchapter D. POWERS AND DUTIES
PURPOSES OF DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A water control and improvement district organized under the provisions of Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, may provide for:
(1) the improvement of rivers, creeks, and streams to prevent overflows, to permit navigation or irrigation, or to aid in these purposes; or
(2) the construction and maintenance of pools, lakes, reservoirs, dams, canals, and waterways for irrigation, drainage, or navigation, or to aid these purposes.
(b) A water control and improvement district organized under the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, may provide for:
(1) the control, storage, preservation, and distribution of its water and floodwater and the water of its rivers and streams for irrigation, power, and all other useful purposes;
(2) the reclamation and irrigation of its arid, semiarid, and other land which needs irrigation;
(3) the reclamation, drainage, conservation, and development of its forests, water, and hydroelectric power;
(4) the navigation of its coastal and inland water;
(5) the control, abatement, and change of any shortage or harmful excess of water;
(6) the protection, preservation, and restoration of the purity and sanitary condition of water within the state; and
(7) the preservation and conservation of all natural resources of the state, including through the use of geothermal water conveyance systems for the conservation of natural resources.
(c) The purposes stated in Subsection (b) of this section may be accomplished by any practical means.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 455 (H.B. 4370), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2025.
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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The Texas Constitution
- Tex. Const. art. III, § 52RESTRICTIONS ON LENDING CREDIT OR MAKING GRANTS BY POLITICAL CORPORATIONS OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; AUTHORIZED BONDS; INVESTMENT OF FUNDS.Printed as Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution
- Tex. Const. art. XVI, § 59CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION DISTRICTS; INDEBTEDNESS AND TAXATION AUTHORIZED.Printed as Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution
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