Texas Water Code Title 2, Chapter 30 - Regional Waste Disposal

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 30.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Regional Waste Disposal Act. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 30.002 - Purpose
  The purpose of this chapter is to authorize public agencies to cooperate for the safe and economical collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal of waste in...
• Texas Section 30.003 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "City" means any incorporated city or town, whether operating under general law or under its home-rule charter. (2) "District" means any...
• Texas Section 30.004 - Cumulative Effect Of Chapter
  (a) This chapter is cumulative of other statutes governing the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission relating to: (1) the...

SUBCHAPTER B REGIONAL WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS

• Texas Section 30.005 - Construction Of Chapter
  The terms and provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870,...
• Texas Section 30.021 - Disposal System
  A district may acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, operate, and maintain one or more disposal systems. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207,...
• Texas Section 30.022 - Purchase And Sale Of Facilities
  A district may contract with any person to purchase or sell by installments over such term as considered desirable any waste collection, transportation, treatment, or...
• Texas Section 30.023 - Lease Of Facilities
  A district may lease to or from any person for such term and on such conditions as may be considered desirable any waste collection, transportation,...
• Texas Section 30.024 - Operating Agreements
  A district may make operating agreements with any person for such terms and on such conditions as may be considered desirable for the operation of...
• Texas Section 30.025 - Waste Disposal Contracts By District
  A district may make contracts with any person, including any public agency located inside or outside the boundaries of the district, under which the district...
• Texas Section 30.026 - Contracts By River Authority
  Each river authority may make contracts authorized by this chapter with any person, including any public agency situated wholly or partly inside its boundaries and...
• Texas Section 30.027 - Contract With Public Agency
  A public agency may make contracts with a district under which the district will make a disposal system available to the public agency and will...
• Texas Section 30.028 - Contract Provisions
  (a) The contract may provide for: (1) duration of the contract for a specified period or until issued and unissued bonds and refunding bonds of...
• Texas Section 30.029 - Continued Use Of District Facilities
  After amortization of the district's investment in the disposal system, the public agency is entitled to continued performance of the service during the useful life...
• Texas Section 30.030 - Source Of Contract Payments
  (a) A public agency may pay for the waste collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal services with income from its waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, or...
• Texas Section 30.031 - Rates
  (a) When all or part of the payments under a contract are to be made from revenue of the waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, both...
• Texas Section 30.032 - Service To More Than One Public Agency
  A contract or group of contracts may provide for the district to render services concurrently to more than one person through constructing and operating a...
• Texas Section 30.033 - Property Acquired By Condemnation Or Otherwise
  (a) To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, a district may acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or in any other manner all or any interest...
• Texas Section 30.034 - Cost Of Relocating, Altering, Etc
  If a district makes necessary the relocating, raising, rerouting, changing the grade of, or altering the construction of any highway, railroad, electric transmission line, pipeline,...

SUBCHAPTER C DISTRICT REVENUE BONDS

• Texas Section 30.035 - Elections
  No election is required for the exercise of any power under this chapter except for the tax levy as provided by Section 30.030(c) of this...
• Texas Section 30.051 - Issuance Of Bonds
  In order to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, or repair disposal systems, the district may issue bonds secured by a pledge of all or part...
• Texas Section 30.052 - Form, Denomination, Interest Rate
  The governing body of the district shall prescribe the form, denomination, and rate of interest for the bonds. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p....
• Texas Section 30.053 - Refunding Bonds
  A district may refund any bonds issued under this chapter on the terms and conditions and at the rate of interest the governing body prescribes....
• Texas Section 30.054 - Sale Or Exchange Of Bonds
  A district may sell bonds issued under this chapter at public or private sale at the price or prices and on the terms determined by...
• Texas Section 30.055 - Interim Bonds
  Pending the issuance of definitive bonds, a district may issue negotiable interim bonds or obligations eligible for exchange or substitution by use of definitive bonds....
• Texas Section 30.056 - Attorney General's Examination
  (a) After issuance of the bonds is authorized, the bonds and the record relating to their issuance may be submitted to the attorney general for...
• Texas Section 30.057 - Registration By Comptroller
  After the bonds have been approved by the attorney general, they shall be registered by the state comptroller. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p....
• Texas Section 30.058 - Validation Suit
  (a) Instead of or in addition to obtaining the approval of the attorney general, the district may have the bonds validated by suit in the...
• Texas Section 30.059 - Bonds Incontestable
  After the bonds are approved by the attorney general and registered with the comptroller, the bonds and the contract are incontestable. Amended by Acts 1977,...
• Texas Section 30.060 - Negotiable Instruments
  Bonds issued under this subchapter are negotiable instruments. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
• Texas Section 30.061 - Investment Securities Under Uniform Commercial Code
  Bonds issued under this subchapter are investment securities governed by Chapter 8, Uniform Commercial Code. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870,...
• Texas Section 30.062 - Bonds As Authorized Investments
  Bonds issued under this chapter are legal and authorized investments for banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, insurance...
• Texas Section 30.063 - Security For Deposits
  The bonds are eligible to secure deposits of any public funds of the state or any political subdivision of the state and are lawful and...
• Texas Section 30.064 - Funds Set Aside From Bond Proceeds
  The district may set aside out of the proceeds from the sale of bonds: (1) interest to accrue on the bonds and administrative expenses to...
• Texas Section 30.065 - Investment Of Proceeds
  Pending their use, proceeds from the sale of bonds may be invested in securities or time deposits as specified in the resolution authorizing the issuance...

SUBCHAPTER D RIVER AUTHORITY PLANNING

• Texas Section 30.066 - Rates And Charges
  While any bonds are outstanding, the governing body of the district shall fix, maintain, and collect for services furnished or made available by the disposal...
• Texas Section 30.101 - Authorization Of Regional Plans
  Each river authority may prepare regional plans for water quality management, control, and abatement of pollution in any segment of its river basin and adjoining...
• Texas Section 30.102 - Planning In Related Fields
  River authorities may conduct planning in related or affected fields reasonably necessary to give meaning to the water quality management and pollution control planning carried...
• Texas Section 30.103 - Joint Planning
  (a) River authorities may join in the performance of planning functions with any district or public agency and enter into planning agreements for the term...
• Texas Section 30.104 - Coordination With Other Planning Agencies
  A river authority performing planning functions under this subchapter shall coordinate its efforts and cooperate with other public planning agencies having significant planning interests in...
• Texas Section 30.105 - Financial Assistance
  River authorities may make applications and enter into contracts for financial assistance in comprehensive planning which are appropriate under Section 3(c) of the Federal Water...
• Texas Section 30.106 - Supervision By Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission is authorized to exercise continuing supervision on behalf of the state of comprehensive plans prepared under this chapter. Amended...

Last modified: September 28, 2016