Sec. 8505.106. AUTHORITY PROPERTY; EMINENT DOMAIN. (a) The authority may acquire, maintain, use, and operate property of any kind or any interest in property, inside or outside the boundaries of the authority, necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions conferred on the authority by this chapter.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the authority may acquire property or an interest in property as provided by Subsection (a) by purchase, lease, gift, exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other manner.
(c) The authority may acquire property or an interest in property by exercise of the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by:
(1) Chapter 21, Property Code; or
(2) the statutes relating to condemnation by districts organized under general law under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
(d) The authority may not exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property or an interest in property that is located outside the boundaries of the authority.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (S.B. 1026), Sec. 1.04, eff. April 1, 2015.
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