Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 8282 - Falcon's Lair Utility And Reclamation District
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 8282.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the district's board of directors. (2) "City" means the city of Mesquite. (3) "District" means the Falcon's Lair Utility...
- Texas Section 8282.002 - Nature Of District
The district is a conservation and reclamation district created under Section 52, Article III, and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2009,...
SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT TERRITORY AND ANNEXATIONS
- Texas Section 8282.003 - 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 8282.051 - District Territory
(a) The district is composed of the territory described by Section 5(a), Chapter 935, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, as that territory...
SUBCHAPTER C DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
- Texas Section 8282.052 - City Approval Required For Annexation
The district must secure the approval of the city, in the form of an ordinance or resolution of the city council of the city, before...
- Texas Section 8282.101 - Composition Of Board; Terms
(a) The board consists of five directors. (b) Directors serve staggered four-year terms, with the terms of two or three directors expiring every other year....
- Texas Section 8282.102 - Vacancy
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a vacancy occurs in the office of director, the remaining directors shall appoint a person to fill...
- Texas Section 8282.103 - Officers And Assistants
(a) The board shall reorganize and elect officers after each election and at any other time the board considers appropriate. (b) The board may designate...
- Texas Section 8282.104 - Compensation
Unless the board by resolution increases the fee to an amount authorized by Section 49.060, Water Code, each director is entitled to receive compensation in...
SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 8282.105 - Board Procedures
The board shall provide the method of execution of all contracts, the signing of checks, and the handling of any other matter approved by the...
- Texas Section 8282.151 - Municipal Utility District Powers
The district has the rights, powers, privileges, and functions conferred, contemplated, and described by Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including the rights, powers, privileges,...
- Texas Section 8282.152 - Authority To Construct Or Acquire Works And Facilities
Subject to compliance with applicable codes, ordinances, resolutions, and rules of the city, the district may plan, lay out, purchase, construct, acquire, own, operate, maintain,...
- Texas Section 8282.153 - Roads
(a) To the extent authorized by Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a macadamized,...
- Texas Section 8282.154 - Improvement Projects And Services
(a) The board may undertake an improvement project or service that confers a special benefit on all or a definable part of the district. (b)...
- Texas Section 8282.155 - Fire Department
(a) The district may establish, operate, and maintain a fire department to perform all firefighting activities in the district and may issue bonds and impose...
- Texas Section 8282.156 - District Contracts
(a) Except as provided by this section, a contract for the purchase or construction of materials, machinery, or other things used to constitute the district's...
- Texas Section 8282.157 - General Contracting Authority
(a) The district may contract with the United States, this state or its agencies, the city, any other public agency or entity, or an individual,...
- Texas Section 8282.158 - Water And Sewer Contracts
(a) The district and the city may enter into, execute, and perform contracts under Section 552.014, Local Government Code, as they consider to be appropriate...
- Texas Section 8282.159 - Eminent Domain
(a) The district may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner, with the privileges, rights, and immunities, and subject to the conditions and...
- Texas Section 8282.160 - Provision Of Water And Sewer Services By City
(a) Notwithstanding Section 8282.157(a), to the extent that the city considers practical, the city may provide water supply and sewer services to residential retail customers...
- Texas Section 8282.161 - Regulatory Authority
(a) With respect to district property, the district has the regulatory and police power provided by Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, except as limited...
- Texas Section 8282.162 - Police Protection
Except for providing for the security of lakes, reservoirs, levees, channels, drains, dams, and contiguous and adjacent facilities, excluding parks and streets owned or controlled...
- Texas Section 8282.163 - District Elections
(a) The board shall order each election the district is required to hold. (b) Notice of a district election must be published once a week...
SUBCHAPTER E GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 8282.164 - Applicability Of City Ordinances, Codes, Resolutions, And Rules
Except as expressly provided, this chapter does not exempt the district from the terms of any applicable ordinances, codes, resolutions, or rules of the city....
- Texas Section 8282.201 - General Financial Powers
The board may: (1) spend and borrow money; (2) issue bond anticipation notes and tax anticipation notes; (3) impose maintenance taxes; and (4) carry out...
- Texas Section 8282.202 - Tax Method
(a) The district shall use the ad valorem plan of taxation. (b) Subchapter G, Chapter 54, Water Code, applies to all matters relating to the...
- Texas Section 8282.203 - Tax Collector
(a) The board shall appoint a person as tax collector for the district and may appoint deputies considered necessary. (b) Each person appointed under this...
- Texas Section 8282.204 - Use Of Maintenance Tax
(a) The board may use and pledge the proceeds received from all or any designated portion of the district's maintenance taxes for any lawful purpose,...
- Texas Section 8282.205 - Deposit And Security Of District Money
(a) The district's treasurer shall have district money deposited and invested in the district's depository bank or other banks or savings associations selected by the...
SUBCHAPTER F BONDS
- Texas Section 8282.206 - Investment Of District Money
At the direction of the board or any other authorized district representative or investment officer, district money may be invested in direct or indirect obligations...
- Texas Section 8282.251 - Authority To Issue Bonds
The board may issue bonds as provided by general law, including Sections 54.501-54.515 and 54.518-54.521, Water Code. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch....
- Texas Section 8282.252 - Authority To Issue Bonds For Roads And Turnpikes
(a) The district may not issue bonds for a purpose described by Section 8282.153 unless the bonds are approved by a vote of a two-thirds...
- Texas Section 8282.253 - Authority To Issue Bonds For Improvement Projects Or Services
(a) To pay all or part of the costs of an improvement project or service under Section 8282.154, the board may issue bonds in one...
- Texas Section 8282.254 - Obligations
(a) In this section, "obligation" means a bond, note, lease-purchase agreement, or installment sale obligation of the district. (b) The principal amount of the district's...
Last modified: September 28, 2016