Tex. Water Code § 55.185 · Subchapter D. POWERS AND DUTIES
CONTRACT WITH THE UNITED STATES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The board may enter into a contract or other obligation with the United States for the following purposes:
(1) to construct, operate, and maintain necessary facilities to deliver and distribute water;
(2) to drain district land;
(3) to assume debt for district land;
(4) to rent temporarily United States water for use on district land under the federal reclamation laws; or
(5) to furnish a water supply to the district under any act of Congress which authorizes it.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 445, 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.55.htm
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- sha256 5031dac529fdc0af0c28c368dd3982ae5f48eedbc0785186054b4c46ff324ce4
- Composed by
- 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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