SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBCHAPTER B CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION TO ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 59, DISTRICT
- Texas Section 55.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "District" means a water improvement district created under this chapter. (2) "Board" means the board of directors of a water improvement...
- Texas Section 55.021 - Creation Of District
A water improvement district may be created in the manner prescribed by this subchapter, either under and subject to the limitations of Article III, Section...
- Texas Section 55.022 - District Wholly Within One County
The commissioners court of a county, at any regular or called session, may create one or more water improvement districts in the county as provided...
- Texas Section 55.023 - District May Include Cities, Towns, Etc
A district may include all or part of one or more cities, towns, villages, and municipal corporations, but no land may be included in more...
- Texas Section 55.024 - Petition
(a) A petition requesting creation of a district may be presented to the commissioners court. The petition must be signed by a majority of the...
- Texas Section 55.025 - Date Set For Hearing
The commissioners court shall set a date for a hearing on the petition, to be held at a regular or special session not less than...
- Texas Section 55.026 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) The county clerk shall issue a notice of the hearing directed to the sheriff giving the date and place of the hearing, and a...
- Texas Section 55.027 - Hearing
(a) At the hearing, any person whose land is included in and would be affected by the district may support or oppose creation of the...
- Texas Section 55.028 - Findings; Order
The commissioners court shall make and enter its findings in the record. If it finds that creation of the district and the construction or purchase...
- Texas Section 55.029 - Appeal
(a) Any petitioner or any landowner in the district aggrieved by the order of the commissioners court may appeal the order to the district court....
- Texas Section 55.031 - Voting Precincts
(a) The commissioners court, at the time it orders the election, shall order creation of one or more election precincts in the district and shall...
- Texas Section 55.032 - Election Officials
The commissioners court shall appoint two judges and two clerks for each polling place, and designate one of the judges to be presiding judge. If...
- Texas Section 55.037 - Directors
The commissioners court shall declare the five persons receiving the most votes to be elected directors. If not all five positions can be determined because...
- Texas Section 55.038 - Issuance Of Notes
(a) If the proposition to issue notes carries, the board of directors shall issue notes of the district, in an amount not to exceed four...
- Texas Section 55.039 - Recordation Of Order
(a) After the commissioners court makes and enters in its minutes the order creating the district or an order changing the name of a district,...
- Texas Section 55.040 - Multi-county District: Petition
Creation of a district composed of land in two or more counties may be initiated by presenting a petition to the commission signed by the...
- Texas Section 55.042 - Multi-county District: Hearing
If the commission determines that a hearing is necessary under Section 49.011, the commission shall conduct a hearing and any person whose land would be...
- Texas Section 55.043 - Multi-county District: Findings
(a) If the commission finds that the plan of water conservation, irrigation, and use presented in the petition is practicable and would be a public...
- Texas Section 55.044 - Multi-county District: Notice Of Election
On receiving a certified copy of the findings of the commission authorizing the election, the commissioners court of each county shall have notices of the...
- Texas Section 55.045 - Multi-county District: Rules Governing Election
Except as provided by the succeeding sections, the election shall be held, the returns made and canvassed, and the results declared, as provided in the...
- Texas Section 55.046 - Multi-county District: Election Returns, Canvass, Result
(a) The commission shall designate the county judge of one of the counties in the proposed district to act as a canvassing board to receive...
- Texas Section 55.047 - Exclusion Of City, Unincorporated Area, Or County Voting Against District
(a) As used in this section: (1) "city" includes town or other municipal corporation; and (2) "unincorporated area" means an area not included within the...
- Texas Section 55.048 - Name Of District
(a) The name of a district wholly within one county shall include the name of the county and a number. Districts wholly within one county...
- Texas Section 55.049 - Survey Of District Boundaries
Immediately after the directors are qualified, the board shall order a survey of the boundaries of the district to be made according to the boundaries...
- Texas Section 55.050 - Chapter Applicable To Irrigation Districts
Irrigation districts created under the laws of 1905, 1913, and 1915 (Chapter 50, Acts of the 29th Legislature, 1905; Chapter 172, Acts of the 33rd...
- Texas Section 55.051 - Change Of District Name
(a) An irrigation district created under the law of 1905, 1913, or 1915 (Chapter 50, Acts of the 29th Legislature, 1905; Chapter 172, Acts of...
SUBCHAPTER C ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 55.053 - Conversion Of Article Iii, Section 52 District To Article Xvi, Section 59 District
(a) A water improvement district created subject to the limitations of Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, may be converted into a water...
- Texas Section 55.101 - Board Of Directors
The governing body of a district is a board of five directors. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 435, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30,...
- Texas Section 55.102 - Qualifications Of Directors
To be qualified for election as a director, a person must be a resident of the state, own land subject to taxation in the district,...
- Texas Section 55.103 - Application To Get On Ballot
(a) A person qualified to serve as a director may file an application with the secretary to have the applicant's name printed on the election...
- Texas Section 55.107 - Optional Conversion To Staggered Terms
(a) The board, by resolution adopted before December 1 of any year on the vote of at least four directors, may adopt the system of...
- Texas Section 55.108 - Appointment Of Directors In Certain Districts
(a) If the petition to create a district proposes a district which would contain no more than 12,000 acres of land, and if at least...
SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 55.110 - Additional Bonds
(a) If a district is appointed fiscal agent of the United States or is authorized to collect money for and in behalf of the United...
- Texas Section 55.161 - Purposes Of District
(a) A water improvement district may provide for irrigation of the land within its boundaries. (b) A district operating under Article XVI, Section 59, of...
- Texas Section 55.163 - Improvements: Purchase Or Construction
A district may purchase or construct improvements and facilities necessary for irrigation of land in the district, and if operating under Article XVI, Section 59,...
- Texas Section 55.165 - Drainage Ditches: Levees
The board may include in the plans of the district the necessary drainage ditches, or other facilities for drainage, and levees for the protection of...
- Texas Section 55.166 - Constructing Bridges And Culverts Across And Over County And Public Roads
The district shall build necessary bridges and culverts across and over district canals, laterals, and ditches which cross county or public roads. Funds of the...
- Texas Section 55.167 - Constructing Culverts And Bridges Across And Under Railroad Tracks And Roadways
(a) The district, at its own expense, may build necessary bridges and culverts across or under any railroad tracks or roadways to enable the district...
- Texas Section 55.185 - Contract With The United States
The board may enter into a contract or other obligation with the United States for the following purposes: (1) to construct, operate, and maintain necessary...
- Texas Section 55.186 - Payments Made By A District Under A Contract With The United States
(a) If a district enters into a contract with the United States, the district may deposit with the United States district bonds at 90 percent...
- Texas Section 55.187 - District As Fiscal Agent For United States
The board may accept on behalf of the district appointment as the fiscal agent for the United States on any federal reclamation project. As fiscal...
- Texas Section 55.188 - Conveying Property To The United States
If the district enters into a contract with the United States, the board may convey to the United States any property which is necessary for...
- Texas Section 55.192 - Acquiring Water Rights
Any district may acquire water rights in the manner provided by law. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 446, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30,
- Texas Section 55.193 - Selling Water Rights
(a) Any district which has a permit issued by the commission to construct a reservoir and to appropriate water from a stream or watershed for...
- Texas Section 55.194 - Transfer Of Water Right
If there is land in a district which has a water right from a source of supply acquired by the district but the land is...
- Texas Section 55.195 - Supplying Water To Cities Outside The District
When a district acquires an established irrigation system which supplies water to landowners in a city, town, or village which is not included in the...
- Texas Section 55.196 - Selling Waterpower Privileges
The district may enter into a contract to sell waterpower privileges if power can be generated from water flowing from the district's reservoirs and irrigation...
- Texas Section 55.197 - Selling Surplus Water
The district may sell to any person who owns or uses land in the vicinity of the district any surplus district water for use in...
- Texas Section 55.198 - Pumping And Delivering Water To Land Near District
The district may enter into a contract with a person who owns or uses land in the vicinity of the district and who has a...
- Texas Section 55.200 - Sale Of Land Acquired By A District For Other Than District Purposes
The district may sell to the highest bidder at a public sale any land acquired by the district through foreclosure of liens for maintenance and...
- Texas Section 55.201 - Use Of Excess District Money
After all district improvements are completed and all expenses are paid, the board may use any remaining money to preserve, maintain, and repair district improvements....
- Texas Section 55.202 - Board's Semiannual Report
On the first day of January and July of each year, the board shall make and verify a report which shows in detail the kind,...
SUBCHAPTER E REGULATORY POWERS
- Texas Section 55.204 - Waiver Of District Tort Immunity
If the board finds that it is in the best interest of the district and that it is necessary to enable the district to enter...
- Texas Section 55.241 - Purpose
The powers granted to the district and its board under this subchapter are for the purpose of helping the district to maintain the purity of...
- Texas Section 55.242 - Rules And Regulations
The board may make and adopt reasonable rules and regulations which are necessary (1) to preserve the sanitary condition of water controlled by the district;...
- Texas Section 55.243 - Notice Of Rules And Regulations
(a) Before a rule or regulation providing for a penalty may be effective, the district must publish a substantial statement of the rule or regulation...
- Texas Section 55.244 - Judicial Notice Of Rules And Regulations
The courts shall take judicial notice of rules and regulations made and adopted under this subchapter. The rules and regulations shall be considered to be...
- Texas Section 55.245 - Contracts For Toll Bridges And Ferry Services
(a) The board has the exclusive right to enter into a contract with any responsible person to construct and operate toll bridges over water regulated...
- Texas Section 55.246 - Bond
The board shall require any person with whom it enters into a contract under Section 55.245 of this code to execute an adequate bond in...
- Texas Section 55.247 - License, Franchise, And Fee
(a) Before a person may keep or operate for hire on district water a ferry or other type of transportation, the person must obtain a...
- Texas Section 55.248 - Charges For Use Of Toll Bridge Facilities And Ferry Service
The board may fix a reasonable amount of compensation to be charged by the owner or operator of a toll bridge or a ferry service...
- Texas Section 55.249 - Regulating Boats
(a) The district may prescribe the type of boats to be used on district water to carry persons for hire and for recreational purposes and...
- Texas Section 55.250 - Responsibilities Of Boat Owners And Operators
(a) The owner or operator of a boat used as a ferry or other type of transportation shall keep the boat and boat landings in...
- Texas Section 55.251 - Peace Officers
The district may employ and constitute its own peace officers. The peace officers may make arrests when necessary to prevent or abate the commission of...
SUBCHAPTER G DISTRICT SURVEY
- Texas Section 55.253 - Injunction
In addition to the penalties provided by this subchapter, the district may seek an injunction in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in...
- Texas Section 55.332 - Duties Of The Engineer
The engineer shall make a complete survey of the land included in the district and make a map and profile of the canals, laterals, reservoirs,...
- Texas Section 55.333 - Maps
(a) The map shall show the name and number of each survey and the area in the district in number of acres. (b) The map...
- Texas Section 55.334 - Adopting Old Surveys
(a) The engineer may adopt any surveys made in the past by any person who has applied for or appropriated any water for irrigation under...
- Texas Section 55.335 - Additional Improvements
If additional improvements of canals, ditches, laterals, reservoirs, or pumping plants are to be constructed, the report shall contain the detailed information with reference to...
- Texas Section 55.336 - Existing Improvements
If the district contains any pumping plants, canals, dams, ditches, or reservoirs which the district is planning to acquire or purchase, the map or plat...
- Texas Section 55.337 - Signing And Filing Engineer's Report, Map, And Profile
After the map, profile, specifications, and estimates are completed, the engineer shall sign them and file them with the secretary of the board. Acts 1971,...
SUBCHAPTER H WATER ASSESSMENTS
- Texas Section 55.338 - Maps And Data Unnecessary Under Contract With United States
None of the maps and data prescribed by this subchapter are required under a contract with the United States except for maps and data needed...
- Texas Section 55.351 - Statement Estimating Water Requirements And Payment Of Charge
(a) If required by the board, each person desiring to receive irrigation water at any time during the year shall furnish the secretary of the...
- Texas Section 55.352 - Board's Estimate Of Maintenance And Operating Expenses
The board, on or as soon as practicable after a date fixed by standing order of the board, shall estimate the expenses of maintaining and...
- Texas Section 55.353 - Methods For Determining Maintenance And Operating Expenses
The board may make assessments for maintenance and operating expenses as provided in this subchapter on the basis of the quantity of water used. Acts...
- Texas Section 55.354 - Distribution Of Assessment
(a) The board by order shall allocate a portion of the estimated maintenance and operating expenses that shall be paid by assessment against all land...
- Texas Section 55.355 - Notice Of Assessments
(a) Public notice of all assessments imposed under Section 55.354(a) shall be given by posting printed notice of the assessment in at least one public...
- Texas Section 55.356 - Payment Of Assessments
(a) All assessments imposed under Section 55.354(a) shall be paid in installments at the times fixed by the board. (b) If a crop for which...
- Texas Section 55.357 - Collection Of Assessments By Tax Assessor And Collector
(a) Under the direction of the board, the assessor and collector of taxes, or other person designated by the board, shall collect all assessments imposed...
- Texas Section 55.358 - Contracts With Person Using Irrigation Water
(a) The board may require each person who desires to use irrigation water during the year to enter into a contract with the district which...
- Texas Section 55.359 - Lien Against Crops
(a) The district shall have a first lien, superior to all other liens, against all crops grown on a tract of land in the district...
- Texas Section 55.360 - List Of Delinquent Assessments
Assessments imposed under Section 55.354(a) not paid when due shall become delinquent on the first day of the month following the date payment is due,...
- Texas Section 55.361 - Water Service Discontinued
(a) If a landowner fails or refuses to pay any water assessment or a person fails to pay a charge, fee, rental, or deposit imposed...
- Texas Section 55.362 - Suits For Delinquent Assessments
Suits for delinquent water assessments or other amounts owed to the district under this subchapter may be brought either in the county in which the...
- Texas Section 55.363 - Interest And Collection Fees
(a) All assessments imposed under Section 55.354(a) shall bear interest from the date payment is due at the rate of 15 percent a year. Assessments...
- Texas Section 55.364 - Rights Of The United States
If the board enters into a contract with the United States, the remedies in this subchapter available to the district also shall apply to enforce...
- Texas Section 55.365 - Surplus Assessments
If assessments made under this subchapter are more than sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the district, the balance shall be carried over to...
- Texas Section 55.366 - Insufficient Assessments
If the assessments made under this subchapter are not sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the district, the unpaid balance shall be assessed, pro...
- Texas Section 55.367 - Land Not Subject To Assessments
If a district fails to furnish sufficient water to irrigate land in the district for two years after its organization, the nonirrigated land is relieved...
- Texas Section 55.368 - Loans For Maintenance And Operating Expenses
The board may borrow money to pay maintenance and operating expenses at an interest rate of not more than 10 percent a year and may...
- Texas Section 55.369 - Fixed Charges For Maintenance Expenses
If maintenance charges are based on the quantity of water used, a fixed charge may be made on all land or water connections entitled to...
- Texas Section 55.370 - Charge To Cities And Towns
If a district includes a city or town or contracts with a city or town to supply water to it, the charge for the use...
SUBCHAPTER I SUPPLYING WATER TO MILITARY CAMPS
- Texas Section 55.371 - Authority To Determine Rules And Regulations
The directors may adopt, alter, and rescind rules, regulations, and standing and temporary orders which do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter and...
- Texas Section 55.401 - Authority Of Districts With Military Base To Issue Bonds
Any district operating under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, which contains all or part of a United States military camp or base...
- Texas Section 55.402 - Bond Election
The district may issue negotiable revenue bonds with a total par value of not more than $100,000 without the necessity of holding an election, but...
- Texas Section 55.403 - Interest Rate And Maturity Date
Bonds issued under this subchapter shall mature not more than five years after the date of issuance. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 459, ch. 58,...
- Texas Section 55.404 - Security For Bonds
(a) Bonds issued under this subchapter may be secured by all or part of the net revenue to be received from a contract for the...
- Texas Section 55.405 - Approval; Registration
After bonds are authorized under this subchapter but before they are issued, the bonds, the resolution of the board authorizing the bonds to be issued,...
- Texas Section 55.406 - Validity Of Bonds
After bonds are approved by the attorney general and registered with the comptroller, they shall be held valid and binding in any action, suit, or...
- Texas Section 55.407 - Payment Of Bonds
The holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter is not entitled to payment of the bonds from funds derived from taxes levied...
SUBCHAPTER J GENERAL FISCAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 55.408 - Advertising For Bids
A contract for constructing or acquiring filtration and pumping equipment, pipelines, or other facilities to supply water to military camps or bases may be awarded...
- Texas Section 55.421 - Construction And Maintenance Fund
The expenses, debts, and obligations incurred in creating, establishing, and maintaining the district shall be paid from the construction and maintenance fund. The construction and...
SUBCHAPTER K BORROWING MONEY
- Texas Section 55.422 - Maintenance And Operating Fund
(a) The district shall create a maintenance and operating fund which shall consist of any money collected by assessment or other methods for the maintenance...
- Texas Section 55.452 - Adopting Method For Payment Of Debts
(a) When a district incurs a debt or obligation, it shall provide for payment of the debt or obligation by levying, assessing, and collecting either...
- Texas Section 55.454 - Incurring Debt Without Voter Approval
None of the provisions of this subchapter shall prevent the board from creating any debt or obligation without voter approval if the debt or obligation...
- Texas Section 55.455 - Taxes On Uniform Basis
(a) Any district which has the principal function of furnishing water for irrigation in the district may provide for the payment of principal and interest...
- Texas Section 55.456 - Obtaining Loan When Bonds Cannot Be Sold
If the district has any bonds which were issued under the provisions of this code but which cannot, in the opinion of the board, be...
- Texas Section 55.457 - Using Revenue From Sale Of Water, Power, And Other Services To Pay Debts
(a) The district may fix charges for the use and sale of water, power, and other services to pay debts and to accomplish other lawful...
SUBCHAPTER L ISSUANCE OF BONDS
- Texas Section 55.458 - Loan Fund
(a) The board may pay or contract to pay on any bonds which it has sold or pledged, in addition to taxes, other funds derived...
- Texas Section 55.491 - Bond Election
After the district is created, the members of the board are qualified, the maps, profiles, specifications, and estimate are filed, and after the assessor and...
- Texas Section 55.497 - Necessary Vote
(a) In a district operating under the authority of Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, a two-thirds vote of persons voting in the...
- Texas Section 55.498 - Ordering Issuance Of Bonds
After the vote is canvassed and a favorable result is declared, the board shall make and enter an order authorizing the issuance of bonds or...
- Texas Section 55.499 - Amount Of Bonds
The bonds shall be sufficient in amount to pay for the proposed improvements together with necessary incidental expenses connected with the improvements, but the amount...
- Texas Section 55.500 - Limitation Of Indebtedness
In districts organized under Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, the amount of bonds or the amount of the contract indebtedness with the...
- Texas Section 55.501 - Special Interest Procedure
(a) The maximum amount of bonds issued by a district may include a sufficient sum to pay the first one, two, or three years' interest...
- Texas Section 55.502 - Formal Requirements Of Bonds
(a) The board shall issue bonds in the name of the district, and the president shall sign the bonds, the secretary shall attest to them,...
- Texas Section 55.504 - Suit To Determine Validity Of Bonds Or Contract
(a) Before any bonds are offered for sale, the district shall bring suit in any district court within the judicial district in which the district...
- Texas Section 55.505 - Notice To Attorney General
(a) Notice of a validation suit shall be served on the attorney general in the manner provided for serving a notice in civil suits. (b)...
- Texas Section 55.507 - Right Of Persons To Intervene And Participate In Suit
At the trial of a validation suit the court may permit persons having an interest in the issues to be determined to intervene and participate...
- Texas Section 55.509 - Judgment Rendered
(a) If the judgment of the court in a validation suit is against the district, the district may accept the judgment and may correct the...
- Texas Section 55.510 - Court's Decree
(a) After the district court enters a final judgment in a validation suit, the clerk of the court shall make a certified copy of the...
- Texas Section 55.513 - County Clerk's Fees
The county clerk is entitled to receive: (1) for registering the bonds, 10 cents for each bond which is registered; (2) for entering the payment...
- Texas Section 55.514 - Sale Of Bonds
(a) After the bonds are issued and registered by the comptroller, the board shall offer the bonds for sale and shall sell them on the...
- Texas Section 55.515 - Emergency Loans And Interim Bonds
(a) The district may create emergency loans and issue interim bonds for the purposes, in the manner, and under the restrictions and limitations provided in...
- Texas Section 55.516 - Tax Levy
(a) After bonds have been voted, the board shall levy a tax on all property in the district sufficient to pay the interest on the...
- Texas Section 55.517 - Adjustment Of Tax Levy
The tax which is levied in connection with the original bond issue shall remain in force for that purpose until a new levy is made....
- Texas Section 55.518 - Interest And Sinking Fund
(a) The district shall have an interest and sinking fund which shall consist of all taxes collected under the provisions of this chapter for this...
- Texas Section 55.519 - Investment Of Sinking Funds
The board may invest sinking funds of the district in bonds of the United States, the State of Texas, any county, any incorporated city or...
- Texas Section 55.520 - Refunding Bonds
(a) The board of a district which has issued bonds under the provisions of this chapter, by resolution, may issue refunding bonds to replace the...
- Texas Section 55.521 - Registering Refunding Bonds
(a) The comptroller may not register any refunding bonds until the original bonds for which the refunding bonds are issued are presented to him for...
- Texas Section 55.522 - Issuing Refunding Bonds For The Same Amount And With The Same Maturity Date As The Original Bonds
(a) Refunding bonds for the same amount and with the same maturity date as the bonds which they are to replace may be authorized by...
- Texas Section 55.523 - Issuing Refunding Bonds Which Place A Greater Burden On The District
If the district issues refunding bonds for a greater amount, for a greater rate of interest, or for a longer period of maturity than the...
- Texas Section 55.524 - Law Governing Refunding Bonds
(a) The provisions of this subchapter governing the election and the issuance, approval, validation, registration, and sale of bonds shall apply to refunding bonds. (b)...
- Texas Section 55.525 - Limiting District's Power To Incur Debt
(a) The board of any district operating under the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, may limit the power of the...
- Texas Section 55.526 - Notice Of Limitation Of Debt
Once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the district, the board shall publish notice of the adoption of a resolution...
- Texas Section 55.527 - Limitation Election
(a) If a petition is filed under Section 55.526 of this code, the limitation of the power to incur debt will not take effect unless...
- Texas Section 55.528 - Operating Under A Limitation On Power To Incur Debt
(a) If no petition is presented under Section 55.526 of this code or if the limitation on the power to incur debt is approved at...
- Texas Section 55.529 - Issuing Bonds In Excess Of Debt Limitation
(a) If the plans, specifications, and estimates under Section 55.528 of this code are approved by the commission, the district shall publish notice once a...
- Texas Section 55.530 - Additional Projects For The District
(a) After district bonds have been authorized or issued or after a contract with the United States has been authorized or executed, if the board...
- Texas Section 55.531 - Issuance Of Additional Bonds
(a) If an election held under Section 55.530 of this code favors the issuance of additional bonds or execution of a contract with the United...
- Texas Section 55.532 - Funds To Repair Damaged Improvements
(a) If improvements of the district are damaged, the district may issue bonds or notes to secure funds to repair the damage. (b) The district's...
- Texas Section 55.533 - Preferred Lien In Favor Of The United States
A lien for the payments due the United States under a contract between the district and the United States under which bonds have not been...
SUBCHAPTER M AD VALOREM TAXATION
- Texas Section 55.534 - Default In Paying Principal And Interest On Bonds By A District Obtaining Its Water Supply From The United States
(a) If a district which obtains its water supply from the United States defaults in the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by...
- Texas Section 55.581 - Assessment And Collection Of District Taxes
The assessor and collector shall assess and collect taxes for the district. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 475, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30,...
- Texas Section 55.600 - Tax Office
For the convenience of district taxpayers, the assessor and collector shall maintain an office with the board. The office shall serve as a place where...
- Texas Section 55.601 - Additional Duties Of The Assessor And Collector
The board may prescribe other duties for the assessor and collector which duties shall be performed in the manner prescribed in the board's rules and...
- Texas Section 55.604 - Assessment Liens
Assessments made by the board for maintenance and operation of the district are liens against the land on which the assessments were made and remain...
SUBCHAPTER N TAXATION ON A BENEFIT BASIS
- Texas Section 55.620 - General Powers And Regulations
(a) No district may become a party to, purchase, hold under, assign, seek to enforce, or receive benefits from a contract between a landowner and...
- Texas Section 55.651 - Election To Determine Method Of Taxation
(a) A district which operates under the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, may, at the time the district is created...
- Texas Section 55.652 - Assessment Record
When necessary, the board shall apportion and assess the benefits conferred on property in the district and shall make a record showing the amount and...
- Texas Section 55.653 - Notice Of Taxes
After the board makes the record specified in Section 55.652 of this code, the board shall mail to each property owner whose name appears in...
- Texas Section 55.654 - Decision After Hearing
After the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the tax is equitable and shall sustain, reduce, or increase the tax to an amount...
- Texas Section 55.655 - Applicable Law
The provisions of this chapter relating to levy, assessment, and collection of taxes which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter shall apply....
- Texas Section 55.656 - Districts Adopting Benefit Plan Of Taxation
In any district other than a district operating under a contract with the United States which is operating under the provisions of Article XVI, Section...
- Texas Section 55.657 - Commissioners Of Appraisement
As soon as practicable after the approval of the engineer's report and the adoption of the plan for improvements to be constructed, the board shall...
- Texas Section 55.658 - Compensation Of Commissioners
On approval by the board, each commissioner is entitled to receive $10 a day for each day he actually serves, plus all necessary expenses. Acts...
- Texas Section 55.659 - Notice Of Appointment And Meeting
Immediately after the commissioners of appraisement are appointed, the secretary of the board shall give written notice to each appointee of his appointment and of...
- Texas Section 55.660 - First Meeting Of Commissioners
(a) The commissioners shall meet at the time specified in the notice from the secretary or as soon thereafter as possible. (b) At the meeting...
- Texas Section 55.661 - Assistance For Commissioners
Within 30 days after the commissioners qualify and organize, they shall begin to perform their duties, and in the exercise of their duties, they may...
- Texas Section 55.662 - Viewing Land And Other Property And Improvements In District
The commissioners shall view the land in the district which will be affected by the district's reclamation plans and the public roads, railroads, rights-of-way, and...
- Texas Section 55.663 - Commissioners Report
(a) The commissioners shall prepare a report and file it with the secretary of the board. The report shall be signed by at least a...
- Texas Section 55.664 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) After the commissioners' report is filed, the secretary of the board shall publish notice of the hearing on the report at least once a...
- Texas Section 55.665 - Hearing
(a) At or before the hearing on the commissioners' report, an owner of land which is affected by the report or the reclamation plans may...
- Texas Section 55.666 - Witnesses At The Hearing
At the hearing, interested parties not only may appear in person or by attorney, but are entitled, on demand, to have the chairman of the...
- Texas Section 55.667 - Costs Of Hearing
The commissioners may adjudge and apportion the cost of the hearing in any manner they consider equitable. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 487, ch. 58,...
- Texas Section 55.668 - Commissioners' Decree
(a) After the commissioners have made a final decision based on the hearing, they shall issue a decree confirming their report insofar as it remains...
- Texas Section 55.669 - Effect Of Final Judgment And Decree
The final judgment and decree of the commissioners shall form the basis for all taxation in the district. Taxes shall be apportioned and levied on...
- Texas Section 55.670 - Fixing Tax As Equal Sum On Each Acre
At the election at which the plan of taxation is determined or at any other time before the bonds are issued, the voters of a...
- Texas Section 55.671 - Election
(a) If the board desires to submit the question of whether or not to adopt the method of assessing benefits provided in Section 55.670 of...
- Texas Section 55.672 - Excluding Nonirrigable Land From District
If the owner of land which is classed as nonirrigable under the uniform acreage valuation objects to the amount of charges fixed against him by...
- Texas Section 55.673 - Setting Annual Value Of Land Unnecessary
If the district adopts the uniform acreage valuation for taxation, the valuation shall be applied to all land in the district, and it is not...
- Texas Section 55.674 - Preparing Tax Rolls
(a) The board shall examine the tax rolls to determine if all property subject to taxation appears on the tax rolls under the proper classification....
- Texas Section 55.676 - Law Governing Administration Of Benefit Tax Plan
In a district that levies taxes on a benefit basis, the rate of taxation and the assessment and collection of taxes shall be governed by...
SUBCHAPTER O ADDING AND EXCLUDING TERRITORY, AND CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS
- Texas Section 55.677 - Irrigating Nonirrigable Land
If land which is classed as nonirrigable is later irrigated by the district, before the owner of the land receives the water, he shall pay...
- Texas Section 55.721 - Exclusion Of Nonagricultural And Nonirrigable Land From District
Land located in the district which is classified as nonagricultural and nonirrigable may be excluded from the district in the manner provided in Subchapter J,...
- Texas Section 55.750 - Consolidation Of Districts
Two or more districts governed by the provisions of this chapter may consolidate into one district as provided by Sections 55.751-55.754. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg.,...
- Texas Section 55.751 - Elections To Approve Consolidation
(a) After the directors of each district have agreed upon the terms and conditions of consolidation, they shall order an election in each district to...
- Texas Section 55.752 - Governing Consolidated Districts
(a) When two or more districts are consolidated, they become one district, except for the payment of debts created prior to consolidation, and are governed...
- Texas Section 55.753 - Debts Of Original Districts
(a) When two or more districts are consolidated, the debts of the original districts are protected and are not impaired. (b) These debts may be...
- Texas Section 55.754 - Taxes Of The Original District
(a) After consolidation, the officers of the consolidated district shall assess and collect taxes on property in the original district to pay debts created by...
SUBCHAPTER P DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT
- Texas Section 55.755 - Exclusion Of Certain Nonirrigated Land
If a district is principally engaged in providing water for agricultural irrigation or the primary purpose of the district is to provide water for agricultural...
- Texas Section 55.801 - Failure To Function
Subject to the provisions of Sections 50.251-50.256 of this code, if any district does not begin to acquire the necessary canals, ditches, flumes, laterals, reservoirs,...
- Texas Section 55.802 - Rights Of Debtors If District Failed To Function
Any person with an interest in the district or a debt owed by the district may collect the debt in the manner provided for the...
- Texas Section 55.803 - Dissolution Using Procedure For Organization Of Districts
If all debts and obligations of the district have been paid and discharged, a district may dissolve voluntarily by the same vote and in the...
- Texas Section 55.804 - Dissolution Using Procedure For Abolition Of Districts In Chapter 56
A district may dissolve voluntarily in the manner provided for the dissolution of districts in Chapter 56 of this code, and the provisions in that...
- Texas Section 55.805 - Payment Of Debts On Dissolution Of District
(a) All debts of districts dissolved under the provisions for the dissolution of districts in this subchapter shall be prorated against the lands in the...