Texas Local Government Code Title 9, Chapter 281 - Municipal Civic Center Authorities

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 281.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Civic Center Authority Act. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

SUBCHAPTER B CREATION OF AUTHORITIES

• Texas Section 281.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Authority" means a civic center authority created under this chapter. (2) "Board" means the board of directors of a civic center...
• Texas Section 281.011 - Characteristics
  (a) An authority is a governmental agency, a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision of the state. (b) An authority may not impose...
• Texas Section 281.012 - Composition
  (a) An authority may include the area of any county or part of a county, including municipalities and other political subdivisions. (b) An authority may...
• Texas Section 281.013 - Petition
  (a) To create an authority, a petition requesting the creation must be filed with the county judge of the county in which the proposed authority...
• Texas Section 281.014 - Notice
  (a) When a petition is filed with the county judge, the judge shall set a date, time, and place for a hearing on the petition...
• Texas Section 281.015 - Hearing
  (a) At the hearing, the county judge shall examine the petition to determine its sufficiency. The county judge may determine all issues raised regarding the...

SUBCHAPTER C ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 281.016 - Final Order And Appeal
  (a) The county judge shall grant the petition if the judge finds that the petition conforms to the requirements of Section 281.013 and that the...
• Texas Section 281.021 - Board Of Directors
  (a) An authority must be governed by a board of directors composed of 5, 7, 9, or 11 directors. (b) A majority of the directors...
• Texas Section 281.022 - Qualifications
  A director must be at least 18 years old and a citizen of the state residing within the boundaries of the authority. Acts 1987, 70th...
• Texas Section 281.023 - Terms Of Office; Appointments; Vacancies
  (a) Each director is appointed for a term of office of two years. (b) The term of office of the first board begins on the...
• Texas Section 281.024 - Bond; Oaths Of Office
  (a) As soon as practicable after a director is appointed, the director shall execute a bond that is: (1) in the amount of $5,000; (2)...
• Texas Section 281.025 - Officers
  (a) After executing the bonds and taking the oaths, the directors shall elect a president, vice-president, secretary, and any other officers the board considers necessary....
• Texas Section 281.026 - Bylaws
  The board may adopt bylaws to govern: (1) the time and place of its meetings; (2) the manner of conducting its meetings; (3) the powers,...
• Texas Section 281.027 - Office And Meeting Place
  (a) The board shall designate, establish, and maintain an office and meeting place within the authority. The board may also establish a meeting place outside...
• Texas Section 281.028 - Meetings; Notice
  (a) The board shall hold regular meetings to conduct authority business and may hold special meetings as required by authority business. (b) The board shall...

SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 281.029 - Fees Of Office
  A director is entitled to receive fees of office of not more than $25 a day for each day of service necessary to the discharge...
• Texas Section 281.041 - Organizational Expenses
  The board may pay costs necessarily incurred in the creation and organization of the authority, including the cost of investigating and making plans, an engineer's...
• Texas Section 281.042 - Management
  The board shall control and manage the affairs of the authority. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
• Texas Section 281.043 - Employees
  (a) The board shall employ persons the board considers necessary to conduct the affairs of the authority, including engineers, attorneys, financial advisors, a general manager,...
• Texas Section 281.044 - Facilities
  (a) An authority may establish, acquire, lease as lessee or lessor, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate, or maintain all or a designated part...
• Texas Section 281.045 - Duration Of Certain Leases
  If an authority leases to or from any person all or part of any facilities constructed or acquired, or to be constructed or acquired, by...
• Texas Section 281.046 - Contracts
  (a) An authority contracts in the name of the authority. (b) An authority may contract with the United States, this state, or a political subdivision...
• Texas Section 281.047 - Contracts Over $50,000
  Sec. 281.047. CONTRACTS OVER $50,000. (a) This section applies to a contract that is for materials for, or construction of, facilities and that is for...
• Texas Section 281.048 - Construction Bids; Contracts; Bonds
  (a) To bid on proposed construction work, a person must submit to the board a written sealed bid and a certified or cashier's check drawn...
• Texas Section 281.049 - Fees; Rules
  (a) An authority may adopt and enforce necessary charges, fees, or rentals for providing facilities or services. (b) An authority may adopt and enforce reasonable...
• Texas Section 281.050 - Acquisition Of Land And Other Property
  (a) An authority may acquire land, materials, easements, rights-of-way, or other property considered necessary, incidental, or helpful to the accomplishment of a purpose stated in...
• Texas Section 281.051 - Eminent Domain
  (a) An authority may acquire land, easements, or other property within its boundaries by condemnation. The authority may condemn the fee simple title or an...
• Texas Section 281.052 - Suits
  An authority may, through its directors, sue and be sued in any court of this state in the name of the authority. Service of process...
• Texas Section 281.053 - Costs, Deposits, And Appeal Bonds
  An authority is not required to give bond for appeal or for costs, or to deposit double the amount of an award, in a condemnation...
• Texas Section 281.054 - Costs Of Relocation
  If the relocating, raising, rerouting, changing the grade, or altering the construction of a highway, railroad, electric transmission line, pipeline, or telephone or telegraph property...
• Texas Section 281.055 - Surplus Property
  (a) The board may order the sale of land or other property owned by the authority that the authority does not need. The sale may...
• Texas Section 281.056 - Addition Of Municipalities
  (a) To add a municipality to the authority, a petition signed by a majority of the members of the governing body of the municipality must...
• Texas Section 281.057 - Records
  The preservation, microfilming, destruction, or other disposition of the records of the authority is subject to the requirements of Subtitle C, Title 6, Local Government...
• Texas Section 281.058 - Surety Bond Premiums
  The board may pay the premiums on surety bonds required of officials or employees of the authority out of available funds of the authority, including...
• Texas Section 281.059 - Depository
  The board shall designate by order or resolution one or more banks in or out of the authority's boundaries to serve as the depository for...
• Texas Section 281.060 - Investments
  The board may invest and reinvest authority funds in direct or indirect obligations of the United States, an agency of the United States, the State...
• Texas Section 281.061 - Fiscal Year; Audit
  (a) The fiscal year of an authority is a calendar year, unless it is changed by the board. (b) An authority shall keep a complete...

SUBCHAPTER E REVENUE BONDS

• Texas Section 281.062 - Supplies; Seal
  (a) The board may purchase materials, supplies, equipment, vehicles, and machinery needed by the authority. (b) The board shall adopt a seal for the authority....
• Texas Section 281.071 - Issuance Of Bonds
  (a) An authority may issue revenue bonds for any purpose set forth in Subchapters A through E when the issuance is authorized by a resolution...
• Texas Section 281.072 - Additional Security
  (a) At the board's discretion, the bonds of an authority may be additionally secured by a deed of trust or mortgage lien on part or...
• Texas Section 281.073 - Bond Provisions
  (a) In a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this chapter, including refunding bonds, the board may: (1) provide for the flow of funds...
• Texas Section 281.074 - Sale Of Bonds
  After bonds are issued, the board shall sell the bonds on the best terms and for the best possible price. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 281.075 - Approval; Registration
  (a) An authority shall submit the bonds it issues to the attorney general for examination. If the attorney general finds that the bonds are authorized...
• Texas Section 281.076 - Bond Proceeds
  The board may appropriate or set aside from the proceeds from the sale of bonds an amount for the payment of interest, administrative and operating...
• Texas Section 281.077 - Refund Of Bonds
  (a) By resolutions adopted by the board, an authority may issue bonds to refund all or any outstanding bonds, including matured but unpaid interest coupons....
• Texas Section 281.078 - Bonds As Investments; Security
  (a) Bonds issued by an authority are legal and authorized investments for a bank, a trust company, a savings and loan association, an insurance company,...

SUBCHAPTER F CONTRACTS WITH CIVIC CENTER AUTHORITIES

• Texas Section 281.079 - Paid Bonds And Coupons
  When a bond, interest coupon, note, or warrant of the authority is paid, it shall be delivered to the authority or destroyed. If a bond,...
• Texas Section 281.091 - Authorization; Purposes
  On terms a municipality considers desirable, fair, and advantageous and with the approval of a majority of the governing body, a municipality may make a...
• Texas Section 281.092 - Payments
  (a) A municipality shall pay the amounts prescribed by the contract from any available funds, including property taxes. (b) To pledge property taxes as part...
• Texas Section 281.093 - Conflict With Municipal Charter
  If this subchapter conflicts with the charter of a home-rule municipality contracting under this subchapter, this subchapter controls. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec....

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