Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 6902 - Crane County Water District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 6902.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the district's board of directors. (2) "Director" means a member of the board. (3) "District" means the Crane County...
• Texas Section 6902.002 - Nature Of District
  The district is a conservation and reclamation district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 6902.003 - Findings Of Benefit And Public Purpose
  (a) The accomplishment of the purposes stated in this chapter is for: (1) the benefit of the people of this state; and (2) the improvement...
• Texas Section 6902.004 - District Territory
  The district includes all of the territory in the boundaries of Crane County as the boundaries of that county existed on January 1, 1985, and...

SUBCHAPTER B BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Texas Section 6902.005 - Sufficient Authority For Entities To Act
  This chapter provides sufficient authority to issue district bonds, execute contracts and conveyances, and perform any other act or procedure authorized under this chapter by...
• Texas Section 6902.051 - Composition Of Board
  The district is governed by a board composed of five directors appointed by the Commissioners Court of Crane County. The directors occupy numbered places on...
• Texas Section 6902.052 - Terms
  Each appointed director shall serve for a term of two years, with the terms of the directors appointed to occupy Places 1 and 2 expiring...
• Texas Section 6902.053 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) To be eligible for appointment as a director, a person must be: (1) a qualified district voter; and (2) a district resident. (b) A...
• Texas Section 6902.054 - Ex Officio Directors
  The county judge of Crane County and the mayor of the City of Crane shall serve as ex officio directors. The county judge and mayor...
• Texas Section 6902.055 - Vacancy
  The Commissioners Court of Crane County by appointment shall fill a vacancy on the board for the unexpired term. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 6902.056 - Removal From Office
  After reasonable notice and a public hearing, the remaining members of the board may remove a director from office for misfeasance, malfeasance, or wilful neglect...
• Texas Section 6902.057 - Quorum
  Any three regular directors constitute a quorum. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2009.
• Texas Section 6902.058 - Board Resolutions; Voting Requirements
  (a) The district shall act through resolutions adopted by the board. (b) All regular directors are entitled to vote on matters before the board. (c)...
• Texas Section 6902.059 - Officers And Assistants
  (a) The board shall elect a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer at the first meeting of the board in March of each year or...
• Texas Section 6902.060 - Officer Duties
  (a) The board president shall preside at board meetings and perform other duties prescribed by the board. (b) The board secretary is the official custodian...
• Texas Section 6902.061 - Meetings
  The board shall have regular meetings at times specified by board resolution and shall have special meetings when called by the board president or by...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 6902.062 - Personal Liability Of Directors
  A director is not personally liable for any bond issued or contract executed by the district. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 6902.101 - General Powers
  The district may exercise all powers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 6902.102 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The district may sue and be sued in the district's own name. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06,...
• Texas Section 6902.103 - Seal
  The board may adopt an official seal. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2009.
• Texas Section 6902.104 - Bylaws; Rules
  The board may adopt and enforce bylaws and rules. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1,
• Texas Section 6902.105 - Gifts And Grants
  The district may request and accept any appropriation, grant, allocation, subsidy, guaranty, aid, service, material, or gift from any person. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 6902.106 - Office
  The district may operate and maintain an office. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2009.
• Texas Section 6902.107 - Employees, Agents, And Officers
  The district may appoint and determine the duties, tenure, qualifications, and compensation of the officers, employees, agents, and professional advisors and counselors of the district,...
• Texas Section 6902.108 - Water Conservation Program
  (a) In this section, "program of water conservation" means the practices, techniques, and technologies that will reduce water consumption, reduce water loss or waste, improve...
• Texas Section 6902.109 - Water Permits
  (a) The district may obtain water appropriation permits and diversion permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (b) The district may acquire water appropriation...
• Texas Section 6902.110 - General Authority Of Public Agencies And Political Subdivisions To Contract With District
  A municipality, public agency, special district, or other political subdivision of the state, including the City of Crane, may enter into a contract or agreement...
• Texas Section 6902.111 - Contracts To Supply Water
  (a) The district may contract with municipalities, public agencies, special districts, other political subdivisions of the state, and other entities, including the City of Crane,...
• Texas Section 6902.112 - Sources For Water; Acquisition Of Land; Storage Capacity
  (a) The district may acquire or construct inside or outside the district one or more reservoirs and any work, water well, water field, pump, plant,...
• Texas Section 6902.113 - Acquisition, Disposal, And Management Of Property
  The district may: (1) acquire, own, rent, lease, accept, hold, or dispose of property or an interest in property, including a right or easement, by...
• Texas Section 6902.114 - Construction Contracts
  (a) The district may award a construction contract that requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 only after publication of notice to bidders once each...
• Texas Section 6902.115 - Conveyance Of Land To District
  A municipality, public agency, special district, or other political subdivision of the state, including the City of Crane, may lease, sell, or otherwise convey its...
• Texas Section 6902.116 - Surplus Property
  Subject to the terms of a resolution or deed of trust authorizing or securing bonds issued by the district, the district may sell, lease, rent,...
• Texas Section 6902.117 - Eminent Domain
  (a) To carry out a power conferred by this chapter, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire the fee simple title...
• Texas Section 6902.118 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
  (a) In this section, "sole expense" means the actual cost of the relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, or change in grade or alteration of construction required...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 6902.119 - Rights-of-way; Easements
  The district has necessary or useful rights-of-way and easements along, over, under, and across all public, state, municipal, and county roads, highways, and places for...
• Texas Section 6902.151 - Tax Collection
  The district shall contract with Crane County to collect property taxes for the district. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 6902.152 - Advisory Duties Of Crane County Auditor
  The Crane County auditor shall serve as an advisor to the district, without remuneration, for the preparation of the district's budget and the imposition of...
• Texas Section 6902.153 - District Money
  The district may acquire, hold, use, and dispose of its money from any source. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 6902.154 - Depository
  (a) The board may select and shall designate one or more banks inside or outside the district to serve as the depository for the district's...
• Texas Section 6902.155 - Investment Of District Money
  The board may invest district money as determined by the board or in the manner provided by a resolution or trust indenture authorizing or securing...

SUBCHAPTER E GENERAL BOND PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 6902.156 - District Facilities Exempt From Taxation And Assessment
  The district is not required to pay a tax or assessment on its facilities or any part of its facilities. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 6902.201 - Authority To Issue Bonds
  (a) The district may issue bonds to carry out any power provided by this chapter. The bonds must be authorized by a board resolution. (b)...
• Texas Section 6902.202 - Form Of Bonds
  (a) A district bond must be: (1) issued in the district's name; (2) signed by the president or vice president; (3) attested by the secretary;...
• Texas Section 6902.203 - Maturity
  District bonds must mature not later than 40 years after the date of their issuance. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 6902.204 - Election For Bonds Payable From Property Taxes
  (a) The district may not issue bonds, except refunding bonds, payable wholly or partly from property taxes unless the issuance of the bonds is authorized...
• Texas Section 6902.205 - Bonds Secured By Revenue; Additional Bonds
  (a) Bonds issued under this subchapter may be secured by a pledge of all or part of the district's revenue, or by all or part...
• Texas Section 6902.206 - Bonds Payable From Property Taxes
  (a) If bonds are issued payable wholly or partly from property taxes, the board must impose a tax on the taxable property in the district...
• Texas Section 6902.207 - Additional Security
  (a) Bonds not payable wholly from ad valorem taxes may be additionally secured, at the discretion of the board, by a deed of trust or...
• Texas Section 6902.208 - Trust Indenture
  (a) A bond issued under this subchapter, including a refunding bond, that is not payable wholly from property taxes may be additionally secured by a...
• Texas Section 6902.209 - Charges For District Services
  (a) If bonds payable wholly from revenue are issued, the board shall set the rates of compensation for water sold and services provided by the...
• Texas Section 6902.210 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
  (a) The district may set aside and use an amount of proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under this subchapter for: (1) the payment...
• Texas Section 6902.211 - 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 6902.212 - Limitation On Rights Of Holders
  The resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust indenture securing the bonds may limit or qualify the rights of the holders of less than all...
• Texas Section 6902.213 - Bonds Exempt From Taxation
  A bond issued under this chapter, the transfer of the bond, and income from the bond, including profits made on the sale of the bond,...

SUBCHAPTER F REFUNDING BONDS

• Texas Section 6902.214 - Exclusion Of Territory After Issuance Of Bonds
  Territory may not be excluded from the district after the issuance of bonds. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec....
• Texas Section 6902.251 - Authority To Issue Refunding Bonds; Applicability Of Law Relating To Other Bonds
  (a) The district may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding bonds issued under this chapter and interest on those bonds. (b) The provisions of this...
• Texas Section 6902.252 - Terms Of Issuance Of Refunding Bonds
  Refunding bonds may: (1) be issued to refund bonds of more than one series; (2) combine the pledges for the outstanding bonds for the security...
• Texas Section 6902.253 - Registration Of Refunding Bonds By Comptroller
  (a) The comptroller shall register the refunding bonds on the surrender and cancellation of the bonds to be refunded. (b) Instead of issuing bonds to...
• Texas Section 6902.254 - Escrow Agreement
  (a) The district may enter into an escrow or similar agreement with any place of payment, paying agent, or trustee with respect to the safekeeping,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016