Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 9015 - Alice Water Authority

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 9015.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Authority" means the Alice Water Authority. (2) "Board" means the board of directors of the authority. (3) "City" means the City...
• Texas Section 9015.002 - Nature Of Authority
  (a) The authority is a conservation and reclamation district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. (b) The authority is an agency of this...
• Texas Section 9015.003 - Findings Of Benefit And Public Purpose
  (a) All territory and taxable property in the authority will benefit from the works and improvements of the authority. (b) The accomplishment of the purposes...

SUBCHAPTER B AUTHORITY TERRITORY AND ANNEXATIONS TO AUTHORITY TERRITORY

• Texas Section 9015.004 - Construction Of Chapter
  This chapter may not be interpreted as amending or repealing Section 11.024, Water Code, which provides for priorities for the use of water. Added by...
• Texas Section 9015.051 - Authority Territory
  The authority is composed of the territory that was contained in the city on January 1, 1981, as that territory may have been modified under:...

SUBCHAPTER C BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Texas Section 9015.052 - Annexation Of City Territory
  (a) Territory annexed to the city may be annexed to the authority as provided by this section. (b) At any time after final passage of...
• Texas Section 9015.101 - Composition Of Board; Terms
  The board consists of five directors who serve staggered two-year terms expiring January 1. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 9015.102 - Appointment Of Directors
  Each December the governing body of the city shall appoint a director to succeed each director whose term expires on the following January 1. Added...
• Texas Section 9015.103 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) A director must reside in and own taxable property in the authority. (b) A member of the city's governing body or an employee of...
• Texas Section 9015.104 - Vacancy
  If a director ceases to reside in the authority or otherwise ceases to serve as a director, the governing body of the city shall appoint...
• Texas Section 9015.105 - Appointment Of Secretary And Treasurer
  The board shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who are not required to be directors. The board may combine the offices of secretary and...
• Texas Section 9015.106 - Vote By Board President
  The president has the same right to vote as any other director. The vice president may not exercise the president's right to vote. Added by...
• Texas Section 9015.107 - Director's And Treasurer's Bond
  (a) Each director shall give bond in the amount of $5,000 conditioned on the faithful performance of the director's duties. (b) The treasurer shall give...
• Texas Section 9015.108 - Compensation
  Unless the board by resolution increases the fee to an amount authorized by Section 49.060, Water Code, each director: (1) shall receive a fee for...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 9015.109 - Manager
  The board shall employ a manager. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.12, eff. April 1, 2009. Renumbered from...
• Texas Section 9015.151 - Acquisition And Use Of Water From Corpus Christi
  (a) The authority may acquire from Corpus Christi untreated water supplied from Lake Corpus Christi, subject to a contract between the authority and Corpus Christi...
• Texas Section 9015.152 - Water Facilities
  (a) The authority may acquire or construct, inside or outside the authority: (1) a diversion works; (2) wells; (3) pumps; (4) pumping stations; (5) pipelines;...
• Texas Section 9015.153 - Regional Waste Disposal
  The authority may exercise the powers granted by Chapter 30, Water Code. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.12,...
• Texas Section 9015.154 - Appropriation Permits
  The authority may: (1) obtain an appropriation permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as provided by Section 12.011, Water Code; or (2) participate...
• Texas Section 9015.155 - Acquisition Of Property
  (a) To exercise a right or perform a duty under this chapter, the authority may acquire: (1) works, machinery, plants, or other facilities; and (2)...
• Texas Section 9015.156 - General Contract Powers
  The authority may contract with the city, a public agency, a political subdivision, this state, the United States, or another person for the purchase or...
• Texas Section 9015.157 - Award Of Certain Construction Contracts
  (a) This section applies only to a construction contract requiring an expenditure of more than $2,000. (b) A contract may be awarded only after notice...

SUBCHAPTER E EMINENT DOMAIN AND RELATED POWERS

• Texas Section 9015.158 - Assignment Of Contract Rights
  (a) The authority may acquire by assignment any right of the city under a contract between the city and Corpus Christi in reference to such...
• Texas Section 9015.201 - Eminent Domain In Jim Wells County
  (a) The authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in Jim Wells County to acquire fee simple title to, an easement or right-of-way in...
• Texas Section 9015.202 - Eminent Domain In Nueces County
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the authority has the same power of eminent domain in Nueces County as it has in Jim Wells...
• Texas Section 9015.203 - Determination Of Interest To Be Acquired
  The board shall determine the amount and character of interest in land, easements, or other property to be acquired under this subchapter. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 9015.204 - Surveys
  The authority has the same rights and powers to make surveys and attend to other business of the authority in Jim Wells and Nueces Counties...

SUBCHAPTER F REGULATORY POWERS

• Texas Section 9015.205 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
  (a) In this section, the term "sole expense" means the actual cost of the relocation, raising, lowering, rerouting, or change in grade or alteration of...
• Texas Section 9015.251 - Adoption Of Rules
  Sec. 9015.251. ADOPTION OF RULES.The board may adopt reasonable rules to: (1) secure, maintain, and preserve the sanitary condition of water in and water that...
• Texas Section 9015.252 - Enforcement Of Rules; Penalty
  (a) The authority by rule may prescribe reasonable penalties for the violation of an authority rule. (b) A penalty may consist of: (1) a fine...
• Texas Section 9015.253 - Notice Of Rule Providing Penalty
  (a) If the authority adopts a rule that provides a penalty, the authority must publish a substantive statement of the rule and the penalty once...
• Texas Section 9015.254 - Judicial Notice Of Rules
  A court shall take judicial notice of a rule adopted under this subchapter and published as required by Section 9015.253, and the court shall consider...

SUBCHAPTER G GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 9015.255 - Enforcement By Peace Officers
  (a) A peace officer may make an arrest when necessary to prevent or abate the commission of an offense: (1) in violation of an authority...
• Texas Section 9015.301 - Depository
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (h), the board shall designate one or more banks in the authority to serve as depository for authority money....
• Texas Section 9015.302 - Tax Assessor And Collector
  The board shall appoint a tax assessor and collector. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.12, eff. April 1,...

SUBCHAPTER H BONDS

• Texas Section 9015.303 - Projects Exempt From Assessment Or Taxation
  The authority is not required to pay a tax or assessment on a project or any part of a project. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 9015.351 - Authority To Issue Bonds
  The authority may issue bonds to carry out any power conferred by this chapter. The bonds must be authorized by a board resolution. Added by...
• Texas Section 9015.352 - Form Of Bonds
  An authority bond must be: (1) issued in the authority's name; (2) signed by the president or vice president; and (3) attested by the secretary....
• Texas Section 9015.353 - Maturity
  Authority bonds must mature not later than 40 years after their date of issuance. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 9015.354 - Election For Bonds Payable From Ad Valorem Taxes
  (a) Bonds, other than refunding bonds, payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes may not be issued unless authorized by a majority of the...
• Texas Section 9015.355 - Bonds Payable From Revenue
  (a) In this section, "net revenue" means the gross revenue and income of the authority pledged under this section less the amount necessary to pay...
• Texas Section 9015.356 - Bonds Payable From Ad Valorem Taxes
  The authority may issue bonds payable, as pledged by board resolution, from: (1) ad valorem taxes imposed on taxable property in the authority; or (2)...
• Texas Section 9015.357 - Tax And Rate Requirements
  (a) If the authority issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall impose a tax sufficient to pay the bonds...
• Texas Section 9015.358 - Additional Security
  (a) Bonds, including refunding bonds, authorized by the law that are not payable wholly from ad valorem taxes may be additionally secured, at the discretion...
• Texas Section 9015.359 - Trust Indenture
  (a) A bond authorized by the law, including a refunding bond, that is not payable wholly from ad valorem taxes may be additionally secured by...
• Texas Section 9015.360 - Interim Bonds Or Notes
  Before issuing definitive bonds, the board may issue interim bonds or notes exchangeable for definitive bonds. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 9015.361 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
  (a) The authority may set aside an amount of proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under this subchapter for payments into the interest and...
• Texas Section 9015.362 - Appointment Of Receiver
  (a) On default or threatened default in the payment of principal of or interest on bonds issued under this subchapter that are payable wholly or...
• Texas Section 9015.363 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The authority may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding bonds issued under this subchapter and interest on those bonds. (b) Refunding bonds may: (1)...
• Texas Section 9015.364 - Limitation On Rights Of Holders
  The resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust indenture or other instrument securing the bonds may limit or qualify the rights of the holders of...
• Texas Section 9015.365 - Bonds Exempt From Taxation
  A bond issued under this subchapter, the transfer of the bond, and income from the bond, including profits made on the sale of the bond,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016