Authority To Issue Revenue Bonds

Sec. 1505.203. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS. (a) A municipality may issue revenue bonds to construct, acquire, lease, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, maintain, replace, develop, operate, regulate, or encumber a harbor or port of the municipality or a navigational facility that pertains or is an aid to the harbor or port, including: (1) land or fill; (2) a boathouse or boat piling; (3) a seawall, breakwater, or shore protection; (4) a wharf, dock, or pier; (5) a walk or way; (6) a wall or bulkhead; (7) a canal, channel, slip, pool, waterway, or turning basin; (8) a dry dock, service facility, floating plant, loading device, lightering facility, bunkering facility, or towing facility; (9) a bridge, tube, underpass, tunnel, or ferry; (10) equipment; (11) a pavilion, building, warehouse, or structure; (12) an aid to navigation; and (13) any other facility, improvement, or aid incident to or necessary or desirable in connection with the harbor or port. (b) This subchapter does not authorize a municipality to issue bonds that are payable from taxes. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.