Tex. Water Code § 65.012 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
PURPOSES OF DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A district may be created:
(1) to purchase, own, hold, lease, and otherwise acquire sources of water supply; to build, operate, and maintain facilities for the transportation of water; and to sell water to towns, cities, and other political subdivisions of this state, to private business entities, and to individuals;
(2) for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of fire-fighting facilities to perform all fire-fighting activities within the district; or
(3) for the protection, preservation, and restoration of the purity and sanitary condition of water within the district.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 2448, ch. 435, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 29, 1983. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 447, Sec. 1, eff. Nov. 15, 1985; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 494, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.65.htm
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- 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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