Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 8288 - Meeker Municipal Water District
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 8288.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the district. (2) "Bond" means a bond or note. (3) "Director" means a member...
- Texas Section 8288.002 - Nature Of District
The district is a conservation and reclamation district in Jefferson County created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg.,...
- Texas Section 8288.003 - 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 8288.004 - Liberal Construction Of Chapter
This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes, powers, rights, and functions stated in this chapter. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
SUBCHAPTER B BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- Texas Section 8288.005 - District Territory
(a) The district is composed of the territory described by Section 1, Chapter 714, Acts of the 65th Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, as that territory...
- Texas Section 8288.051 - Composition Of Board; Terms
(a) The district is governed by a board of nine elected directors, each of whom occupies a numbered place on the board. (b) Directors serve...
- Texas Section 8288.052 - Qualifications For Office
To be eligible to be elected or to serve as a director, a person must be a resident, qualified voter of the district. Added by...
- Texas Section 8288.053 - Board Resolutions; Voting Requirements
(a) The district shall act through orders or resolutions adopted by the board. (b) All directors are entitled to vote. (c) The affirmative vote of...
- Texas Section 8288.054 - Officers And Assistants
(a) The board shall elect a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. (b) The board shall elect the president and vice president from among the...
- Texas Section 8288.055 - 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...
SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 8288.056 - Meetings
The board shall have regular meetings at times specified by board resolution or bylaws and shall have special meetings when called by the board president...
- Texas Section 8288.101 - District Powers
The district may exercise any power necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this chapter, including the power to: (1) adopt an official seal;...
- Texas Section 8288.102 - 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 inside or...
- Texas Section 8288.103 - General Powers Regarding Waste
The district has all rights, powers, and privileges necessary or useful to enable it to collect, transport, dispose of, and control domestic, industrial, or communal...
- Texas Section 8288.104 - General Powers Regarding Garbage Collection And Disposal
The district has all rights, powers, and privileges necessary or useful to enable it to provide for garbage collection and disposal in all or part...
- Texas Section 8288.105 - 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 8288.106 - Authority Of Public Agencies And Political Subdivisions To Contract With District
A public agency or political subdivision of this state may enter into a contract or agreement with the district, on terms agreed to by the...
- Texas Section 8288.107 - Conveyance Of Property To District
A public agency or political subdivision of this state may lease, sell, or otherwise convey to the district, for any consideration that the parties agree...
- Texas Section 8288.108 - Acquisition Of Existing Facilities
If the district acquires existing works, improvements, facilities, plants, equipment, or appliances that are completed, partially created, or under construction, the district may: (1) assume...
- Texas Section 8288.109 - Eminent Domain
(a) To carry out a power conferred by this chapter, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain inside or outside the district to...
SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 8288.110 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property; Rights-of-way And Easements
(a) If the district's exercise of its eminent domain, police, or other power requires relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, or changing the grade of or altering...
- Texas Section 8288.151 - Imposition Of Maintenance Tax; Prohibition On Other Taxes Or Assessments
(a) The district may impose a tax, not to exceed 10 cents on each $100 of the assessed value of taxable property in the district...
- Texas Section 8288.152 - Election To Impose Tax
(a) The board may order an election to impose a maintenance tax. The election order must specify: (1) the time and place of the election;...
- Texas Section 8288.153 - Depository
(a) The board shall designate one or more banks inside or outside the district to serve as the depository for the district's money. (b) All...
- Texas Section 8288.154 - 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 8288.155 - 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. (Acts 65th Leg., R.S., Ch....
- Texas Section 8288.201 - Authority To Issue Bonds
(a) The district may issue bonds payable from and secured by district revenue to carry out any power conferred by this chapter. The bonds must...
- Texas Section 8288.202 - 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 8288.203 - Maturity
District bonds must mature not later than 40 years after the date of their issuance. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B....
- Texas Section 8288.204 - 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 8288.205 - 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 8288.206 - Trust Indenture
District bonds authorized by this chapter, including refunding bonds, may be additionally secured by a trust indenture. The trustee may be a bank with trust...
- Texas Section 8288.207 - 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 8288.208 - 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 8288.209 - 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 8288.210 - 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 8288.211 - Refunding Bonds
(a) The district may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding district bonds and interest on those bonds. Refunding bonds may be issued without an election....
- Texas Section 8288.212 - Other Remedies And Covenants
The resolution authorizing the issuance of any district bonds authorized under this chapter, including refunding bonds, or the trust indenture securing the bonds, may provide...
- Texas Section 8288.213 - 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 8288.214 - 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