Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 8246 - Lavaca County Flood Control District No. 3

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 8246.001 - 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 Lavaca County...
• Texas Section 8246.002 - Nature Of District
  (a) The district is a municipal utility district and a conservation and reclamation district as provided by this chapter. (b) The creation of the district...

SUBCHAPTER B BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Texas Section 8246.003 - District Territory
  The district is composed of the territory described by Section 1, Chapter 95, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, as that territory may...
• Texas Section 8246.051 - Composition Of Board
  The board is composed of five elected directors who serve staggered terms. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.04,...
• Texas Section 8246.052 - Director's Bond; Treasurer's Bond
  (a) Each director shall give bond in the amount of $1,000 for the faithful performance of the director's duties. (b) The treasurer of the district...
• Texas Section 8246.053 - Official Actions; Quorum
  (a) The board shall perform official actions by resolution. (b) Two-thirds of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business of the...
• Texas Section 8246.054 - Board Meetings
  (a) The board shall hold regular meetings at least once every three months. The dates of regular meetings must be established in the district's bylaws...
• Texas Section 8246.055 - Board Compensation For Attending Meetings
  Unless the board by resolution increases the fee to an amount authorized by Section 49.060, Water Code: (1) each director is entitled to receive a...

SUBCHAPTER C GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 8246.056 - Officers
  (a) The president shall perform those functions that are customarily incident to the office of president. (b) The vice president shall act as president in...
• Texas Section 8246.101 - Municipal Utility District Powers; General Powers
  (a) The district has and may exercise the powers, functions, duties, and privileges provided by general law applicable to a municipal utility district, including those...
• Texas Section 8246.102 - Eminent Domain
  The district may exercise the power of eminent domain inside district boundaries to acquire property of any kind, or an interest in property, necessary or...

SUBCHAPTER D FLOOD CONTROL

• Texas Section 8246.103 - Contracts And Warrants
  The district may enter into contracts and issue warrants payable from current funds under the applicable provisions of Chapter 252, Local Government Code, that relate...
• Texas Section 8246.151 - Flood Control Powers And Duties
  The district may: (1) exercise a power, right, privilege, or function conferred by general law on a flood control district created under Section 59, Article...
• Texas Section 8246.152 - Easement Over And Relocation Of Roads
  The district has a right-of-way and easement over and across a road or highway of this state or a subdivision of this state for the...

SUBCHAPTER E GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 8246.153 - Maintenance Of Federal Flood Control Projects
  The district is entitled to maintain a flood control project constructed in Lavaca County by the United States if the project: (1) extends wholly or...
• Texas Section 8246.201 - Petition And Election Authorizing Ad Valorem Tax; Tax Limit
  (a) The board may impose on all taxable property in the district an annual tax at a rate not to exceed 15 cents on the...
• Texas Section 8246.202 - Notice For And Manner Of Holding Ad Valorem Tax Election
  (a) Notice of an election under Section 8246.201 must be published once each week for two weeks in a newspaper that is published in Lavaca...

SUBCHAPTER F BONDS

• Texas Section 8246.203 - Tax Laws Applicable
  The laws of this state relating to the imposition of ad valorem taxes and collection of delinquent taxes by a water control and improvement district...
• Texas Section 8246.251 - Petition For Bond Election
  (a) A petition requesting an election on the proposition of the issuance of bonds for any purpose authorized in this chapter may be presented to...
• Texas Section 8246.252 - Date And Notice Of Petition Hearing
  (a) The board shall set a date for a public hearing on the petition that is not more than 30 days after the date the...
• Texas Section 8246.253 - Hearing And Determination On Petition
  (a) The board shall consider and determine all matters brought before the board at the hearing. (b) If the board determines that the proposed improvements...
• Texas Section 8246.254 - Election For, Issuance Of, And Sale Of Bonds
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the election for, issuance of, and sale of district bonds are governed by the provisions of Chapters 1201,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016