Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 6906 - Coryell City Water Supply District
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 6906.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the district's board of directors. (2) "Bond" means a bond or note. (3) "Director" means a member of the...
- Texas Section 6906.002 - Nature Of District
The district is a conservation and reclamation district in Coryell County created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 6906.003 - Findings Of Benefit And Public Purpose
(a) The district is created to serve a public use and benefit. (b) All land and other property included in the boundaries of the district...
- Texas Section 6906.004 - District Territory
(a) The district is composed of the territory described by Section 2, Chapter 435, Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, as that territory...
- Texas Section 6906.051 - Composition Of Board; Terms
(a) The district is governed by a board of 11 directors, each of whom occupies a numbered place on the board. (b) Directors serve staggered...
- Texas Section 6906.052 - Qualifications For Office
(a) Directors must be appointed from areas in Coryell County as follows: (1) one each from the Oglesby-Mound area and Levita area; (2) two each...
- Texas Section 6906.053 - Vacancies
Any vacancy occurring on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment in the manner in which the vacating director was appointed....
- Texas Section 6906.054 - Removal From Office
After reasonable notice and a public hearing, the board may remove a director from office for misfeasance, malfeasance, or wilful neglect of duty. Reasonable notice...
- Texas Section 6906.055 - Board Resolutions; Voting Requirements
(a) The district shall act by resolutions adopted by the board. (b) All directors are entitled to vote. (c) The affirmative vote of a majority...
- Texas Section 6906.056 - Officers And Assistants
(a) The board shall elect a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer at the first meeting of the newly constituted board each year and at...
- Texas Section 6906.057 - Duties Of Officers And Assistants
(a) The board president shall preside at board meetings and perform other duties prescribed by the board. (b) The board treasurer shall perform duties and...
- Texas Section 6906.058 - 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 6906.059 - 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 6906.101 - General Powers
The district has all powers necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this chapter. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
- Texas Section 6906.102 - General Powers Regarding Water
The district has all rights, powers, and privileges necessary or useful to enable it to acquire, provide, supply, deliver, and sell potable water for any...
- Texas Section 6906.103 - General Powers Regarding Waste
(a) The district has all rights, powers, and privileges necessary or useful to enable it to collect, transport, dispose of, and control domestic, industrial, or...
- Texas Section 6906.104 - District Bylaws And Rules
The district may adopt and enforce: (1) bylaws and rules for the conduct of its affairs; and (2) rules that a municipal utility district may...
- Texas Section 6906.105 - Property Acquisition, Use, And Disposition
(a) The district may acquire, own, rent, lease, accept, hold, or dispose of property, or an interest in property, including a right or easement, by...
- Texas Section 6906.106 - Requests For And Acceptance Of Aid
The district may request and accept an appropriation, grant, allocation, subsidy, guarantee, aid, service, material, or gift from any public or private source, including the...
- Texas Section 6906.107 - District 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 6906.108 - Personnel
The district may appoint and determine the duties, tenure, qualifications, and compensation of district officers and employees, as well as any agent, professional advisor, or...
- Texas Section 6906.109 - Permits
(a) The district may obtain through appropriate proceedings permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (b) The district may acquire water appropriation permits from...
- Texas Section 6906.110 - General Contract Powers
(a) The district may enter into and enforce a contract or agreement necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions...
- Texas Section 6906.111 - Authority Of Public Agencies And Political Subdivisions To Contract With District
(a) A public agency or political subdivision of this state may enter into a contract or agreement with the district, on terms agreed to by...
- Texas Section 6906.112 - Acquisition Of Land; Storage Capacity
(a) The district may acquire land, or an interest in land, inside or outside the district for any work, plant, or other facility necessary or...
- Texas Section 6906.113 - 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 6906.114 - Conveyance Of Land To District
A public agency or political subdivision of this state may lease, sell, or otherwise convey to the district any of its land, improvements, property, plants,...
- Texas Section 6906.115 - Disposal Of 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 6906.116 - Eminent Domain
(a) To carry out a power provided by this chapter, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire the fee simple title...
- Texas Section 6906.117 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
(a) In this section, the term "sole expense" means the actual cost of the relocation, raising, lowering, rerouting, or change in grade or alteration of...
- Texas Section 6906.118 - Rights-of-way; Easements
The district has all necessary or useful right-of-way and easements along, over, under, and across all public, state, municipal, and county roads, highways, and places...
SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 6906.119 - Seal
The district 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 6906.151 - District Money
The district may acquire, hold, use, and dispose of its receipts and money from any source. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
- Texas Section 6906.152 - Authority To Borrow Money And Issue Bonds
The district, in the manner and to the extent permitted by this chapter, may: (1) borrow money for any of its corporate purposes; (2) enter...
- Texas Section 6906.153 - Depository
(a) The board shall designate one or more banks or savings and loan associations inside or outside the district to serve as the depository for...
- Texas Section 6906.154 - Investment Of District Money
The board may invest district money in obligations and make time deposits of district money in a manner determined by the board or in the...
SUBCHAPTER E BONDS
- Texas Section 6906.155 - 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 6906.201 - Authority To Issue Bonds
(a) The district may issue bonds payable from and secured by district revenue to carry out any purpose or power conferred on the district by...
- Texas Section 6906.202 - Form Of Bonds
District bonds must be: (1) issued in the district's name; (2) signed by the president or vice president; and (3) attested by the secretary. Added...
- Texas Section 6906.203 - 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 6906.204 - Bonds Secured By Revenue; Additional Bonds
(a) District bonds may be secured by a pledge of all or part of the district's revenue, or by all or part of the payments...
- Texas Section 6906.205 - Additional Security
(a) District bonds may be additionally secured, at the discretion of the board, by a deed of trust or mortgage lien on all or part...
- Texas Section 6906.206 - Trust Indenture
(a) District bonds, including refunding bonds, may be additionally secured by a trust indenture. The trustee may be a bank with trust powers located inside...
- Texas Section 6906.207 - Charges For District Services
If district bonds payable wholly from revenue are issued, the board shall set and revise the rates, fees, and charges assessed for water sold and...
- Texas Section 6906.208 - State Pledge Regarding Rights And Remedies Of Bondholders
Without depriving this state of its power to regulate and control the rates, fees, and charges assessed for water sold and waste collection and treatment...
- Texas Section 6906.209 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
(a) The district may set aside an amount of proceeds from the sale of district bonds for: (1) the payment of interest expected to accrue...
- Texas Section 6906.210 - Appointment Of Receiver
(a) On default or threatened default in the payment of the principal of or interest on district bonds that are payable wholly or partly from...
- Texas Section 6906.211 - Refunding Bonds
(a) The district may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding district bonds and interest on those bonds. (b) Refunding bonds may: (1) be issued to...
- Texas Section 6906.212 - Other Remedies And Covenants
The resolution authorizing the issuance of any district bonds, including refunding bonds, or the trust indenture securing the bonds, may provide other remedies and covenants...
- Texas Section 6906.213 - Limitation On Rights Of Bondholders
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 6906.214 - Bonds Exempt From Taxation
A district bond, the transfer of the bond, and the income from the bond, including profits made on the sale of the bond, are exempt...
Last modified: September 28, 2016