Powers Regarding Wharves, Docks, and Other Facilities

Sec. 5018.0102. POWERS REGARDING WHARVES, DOCKS, AND OTHER FACILITIES. The district may: (1) acquire, take over, construct, maintain, repair, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, dumping facilities, belt railways, lands, and other facilities or aids consistent with or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways in the district; and (2) construct, extend, improve, repair, maintain, and reconstruct, cause to be constructed, extended, improved, repaired, maintained, and reconstructed, and own, rent, lease, use, and operate any facility of any kind necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions granted by this chapter. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 468 (H.B. 4172), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2021.