Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 6, Chapter 9023 - Duval County Conservation And Reclamation District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 9023.001 - 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 Duval County...
• Texas Section 9023.002 - Nature Of District
  The district is: (1) a conservation and reclamation district under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and (2) a municipal corporation. Added by Acts 2015,...
• Texas Section 9023.003 - Findings Of Benefit And Public Purpose
  (a) The district is created to serve a public use and benefit. (b) All land included in the boundaries of the district will benefit from...

SUBCHAPTER B BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Texas Section 9023.004 - District Territory
  The district is composed of the territory described by Section 1, Chapter 398, Acts of the 51st Legislature, Regular Session, 1949, as that territory may...
• Texas Section 9023.051 - Composition Of Board
  The board is composed of four elected directors. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 855 (S.B. 1162), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2017....

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 9023.052 - Election Of Directors
  (a) Directors are elected to positions according to the place system as provided by this section. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c): (1) a...
• Texas Section 9023.101 - Water Control And Improvement District Powers
  The district has the rights, powers, privileges, and duties provided by general law applicable to a water control and improvement district created under Section 59,...
• Texas Section 9023.102 - General Contract Powers
  The board may enter into a contract with any individual or any public or private corporation, inside or outside the district, that the board considers...
• Texas Section 9023.103 - Acquisition Of Property
  The district may acquire property not already devoted to public use in the district that the board considers necessary to accomplish the district's objectives. Added...
• Texas Section 9023.104 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
  If the district's exercise of the power of eminent domain, the power of relocation, or any other power granted by this chapter, makes necessary relocating,...

SUBCHAPTER D BONDS

• Texas Section 9023.105 - Water Permit Acquired From Municipality
  A water permit acquired by the district from a municipality in the district must be acquired subject to a provision that, in case of a...
• Texas Section 9023.151 - Authority To Issue Bonds
  The district may issue bonds pursuant to a board resolution for any purpose permitted to water control and improvement districts, including the acquisition by construction...
• Texas Section 9023.152 - Certain Bond Covenants Authorized
  A resolution authorizing the issuance of district bonds may contain any covenant the board considers necessary to ensure: (1) the creation and maintenance of proper...
• Texas Section 9023.153 - Maturity
  District bonds, including refunding bonds, must mature not later than 40 years after the date of their issuance. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 9023.154 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
  The district may appropriate and pay from the proceeds of the sale of bonds the interest to accrue on the bonds for a period not...
• Texas Section 9023.155 - Bonds Secured By Revenue; Additional Bonds
  (a) In this section, "net revenues" means all income or increment from the ownership and operation of improvements and facilities operated by the district, minus...
• Texas Section 9023.156 - Bonds Secured By Ad Valorem Taxes
  (a) This section does not apply to district bonds secured only by a pledge of net revenues as defined by Section 9023.155(a). (b) If bonds...

SUBCHAPTER E DISANNEXATION OF MUNICIPAL TERRITORY

• Texas Section 9023.157 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The district may issue refunding bonds without an election. (b) District bonds may be refunded by: (1) the issuance and delivery to holders of...
• Texas Section 9023.201 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "municipal territory" means the territory located in the corporate boundaries and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality located in the district. Added...
• Texas Section 9023.202 - Disannexation Of Municipal Territory
  Municipal territory may be disannexed from the district under this subchapter on petition for an election on disannexation and a vote in favor of the...
• Texas Section 9023.203 - Petition
  (a) A petition for an election to disannex municipal territory under this subchapter must: (1) be signed by at least the lesser of 250 registered...
• Texas Section 9023.204 - Election Order
  (a) The board shall order an election for the purpose of disannexation of municipal territory under this subchapter if the district manager certifies the number...
• Texas Section 9023.205 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under this subchapter must permit voting for one of the following three propositions: (1) "The City of (name of municipality)...
• Texas Section 9023.206 - Election
  (a) Only voters who reside in the municipal territory to be disannexed under this subchapter may vote in the disannexation election. (b) The municipal territory...
• Texas Section 9023.207 - Board Vote
  (a) The directors shall vote to disannex municipal territory if the majority of the votes cast in an election under this subchapter is for disannexation....
• Texas Section 9023.208 - Appointment Of Master
  Not later than the 30th day after the election results are canvassed and the board votes to disannex municipal territory under Section 9023.207, the executive...
• Texas Section 9023.209 - Distribution Of Property, Receivables, And Other Assets
  (a) All infrastructure and real property, including water and sewer lines, storage tanks, treatment plants, towers, buildings, land, and other facilities located within municipal territory...
• Texas Section 9023.210 - Provision Of Services Outside Disannexed Municipal Territory
  (a) This section applies only to a municipal water or sewer system established or acquired as a result of voter approval of the proposition stated...

Last modified: September 28, 2016