Sec. 3938.111. DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL ZONES. (a) The district may designate all or any part of the area of the district, as if the district were a municipality, as:
(1) a tax increment reinvestment zone under Chapter 311, Tax Code;
(2) a tax abatement reinvestment zone under Chapter 312, Tax Code; or
(3) an industrial district under Chapter 42, Local Government Code.
(b) Section 311.006(b), Tax Code, does not apply to a tax increment reinvestment zone created by the district.
(c) The district may submit to the Texas Economic Development Bank a request for designation of a project or activity in the district as an enterprise project in the manner provided for a municipality to submit a request under Chapter 2303, Government Code.
(d) If the county creates a tax increment reinvestment zone under Chapter 311, Tax Code, the county, by contract with the district, may grant money deposited in the tax increment fund to the district to be used by the district for the purposes permitted for money granted to a corporation under Section 380.002(b), Local Government Code, including the right to pledge the money as security for any bonds issued by the district for an improvement project.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 982 (H.B. 4154), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2015.
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