Texas Special District Local Laws Code § 8503.016 Authority As Conservation And Reclamation District

Sec. 8503.016. AUTHORITY AS CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION DISTRICT. (a) The authority shall manage and use its facilities, the water impounded by its dams on the Colorado River or its tributaries, and any available net operating revenues to accomplish, to the extent possible, the purposes included in Section 59(a), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, that are enumerated in the provisions of this chapter or other general law, and the authority shall market electric power that, in the opinion of the board, will not be immediately needed by the authority, under contracts and on conditions that will best enable the authority to pay its operating expenses, meet its outstanding financial obligations as they mature, supply the increasing demand for electric power in the area dependent on its systems for electric service on April 28, 1975, and assure, to the extent possible, an adequate supply of water for irrigation and other useful purposes, as it is needed in the various counties comprising the authority.

(b) When bonds are to be issued to finance in whole or in part water-impounding facilities, before approving the bonds the attorney general shall be furnished a resolution from the commission or its successor agency certifying that the authority possesses the necessary water right authorizing it to impound or otherwise appropriate the waters to be utilized by the project.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 996, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Renumbered from Water Code, Section 222.016 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921 (H.B. 3167), Sec. 13.006(b), eff. September 1, 2007.

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