Title WA, Water Code

Sec. 51.800. ISSUANCE AND SALE OF DISSOLUTION BONDS. (a) If a majority of the electors at the election vote in favor of the dissolution of the district and the issuance of bonds and the levy of taxes for the payment of the bonds, the board shall issue and sell the bonds or any pa…

Sec. 51.801. DESTROYING UNSOLD BONDS. If a majority of the electors at the election vote in favor of the dissolution of the district, the board shall destroy all unsold bonds of the district and enter an order cancelling all unissued and unsold bonds authorized by the electors. A…

Sec. 51.802. BOARD'S AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT. The board may contract with trustees, engineers, attorneys, and others it considers necessary or desirable to properly liquidate and wind up the affairs of the district. The board also may assume obligations made by others for the benef…

Sec. 51.803. TAX TO PAY DISSOLUTION BONDS. The order issuing the dissolution bonds shall provide that the principal of and interest on the bonds shall be payable from the proceeds of a tax to be levied on the taxable property located in the district. The tax shall be in an amount…

Sec. 51.804. DETERMINING AMOUNT OF TAX. (a) The value of all of the taxable property of the district shall be taken at the assessed value as determined in the manner provided by the Property Tax Code, and an amount equal to the total of the principal and all interest to maturity …

Sec. 51.805. PAYMENT OF TAX. The amount of the tax on the taxable property of each owner shall be payable in equal annual installments during the period in which the bonds mature, on dates specified in the order issuing the bonds. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 382, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff…

Sec. 51.806. ADVANCE PAYMENT OF TAXES IN CASH. The order issuing the bonds shall provide that a property owner may secure release of the entire amount of his taxable property as assessed on the rolls from the tax levied for the dissolution bonds by the payment in cash of the full…

Sec. 51.807. COMPUTING AMOUNT OF ADVANCE CASH PAYMENT. (a) In order to compute the full amount of an advance cash payment, the interest rate on the bonds shall be applied on an annual basis to each unpaid installment of taxes for the number of years the installment of taxes must …

Sec. 51.808. SURRENDER OF BONDS IN PAYMENT OF TAXES. The order issuing the bonds shall provide that any of the bonds with all unmatured interest and all appurtenant coupons may be surrendered at any time in payment of all unpaid installments of the taxes. The amount of taxes foun…

Sec. 51.809. COMPUTING AMOUNT OF PAYMENT MADE BY SURRENDERING BONDS. (a) In order to compute payment by surrendering bonds, the interest rate on the bonds shall be applied on an annual basis to each unpaid installment of taxes for the number of years the installment must run befo…

Sec. 51.810. USE BY TRUSTEE OF ADVANCE PAYMENTS OF TAX. The order issuing the bonds shall provide that the bonds shall be called and redeemed by the trustee in the inverse order of their maturity and in the inverse order of their serial numbers. They shall be paid out of any fund…

Sec. 51.811. APPROVAL AND REGISTRATION OF DISSOLUTION BONDS. After the dissolution bonds are issued by the board and before they are put in circulation, the bonds, at the option of the board, shall either be submitted to and approved by the attorney general and registered by the …

Sec. 51.812. DISSOLUTION TAX ROLL. Before the issuance and delivery of the bonds, the board shall have the amount of dissolution tax imposed on each property in the district and its orders relating to the time and manner of payment of the tax entered on the current tax roll for t…

Sec. 51.819. FILING DISSOLUTION TAX ROLL. After the preparation of the dissolution tax roll, the board shall file the tax roll with the assessor and collector of the county or counties in which the district is located. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 384, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1…

Sec. 51.820. COLLECTION OF TAXES. The assessor and collector shall collect the taxes determined under Section 51.804 of this code on the land located in the county for which he is assessor and collector at the time and in the manner specified by the board in its various orders is…

Sec. 51.821. APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEE. (a) Before the issuance and delivery of dissolution bonds, the board shall appoint a trustee of the funds to be collected from the taxes. The trustee shall be an individual or a bank or trust company in the county or one of the counties in whi…

Sec. 51.822. AUTHORITY OF THE TRUSTEE. The trustee shall receive from the assessor and collector all proceeds from the assessments less the assessor and collector's charges and shall be the paying agent of the district for the bonds. The bonds shall be payable at the place of bus…

Sec. 51.823. TAX LIEN. After filing the tax roll in the office of the assessor and collector, the taxes, penalties, interest, and attorney's fees shall become a specific charge on and be secured by a lien superior to all other liens, except tax liens, on the personal property, la…

Sec. 51.824. FORECLOSURE OF LIEN. The lien may be foreclosed in the manner prescribed in the Property Tax Code in a suit or suits brought in the name of the district by the board, or by the trustee or his successor as provided by the board. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 385, ch. 58, S…

Sec. 51.825. DEFAULT IN PAYMENT OF TAX INSTALLMENT. (a) Default in the payment of an installment of taxes levied for the payment of dissolution bonds for 60 days after the installment becomes due and payable as provided by the board shall, at the option of the board or the truste…

Sec. 51.826. PENALTY AND ATTORNEY'S FEE. (a) A penalty of 10 percent of the unpaid amount of taxes shall accrue immediately on default of payment of taxes after the 60 days. (b) An attorney's fee of 10 percent of the unpaid amount of the taxes is due and payable immediately on in…

Sec. 51.827. DISCHARGE OF LIEN. (a) On the final payment of the taxes, either the assessor and collector or the trustee shall issue a certificate certifying that the taxes have been fully satisfied and the lien is released. (b) The execution and acknowledgment of the certificate …

Sec. 51.828. DISTRICT CONSIDERED DISSOLVED. (a) On the issuance and sale or delivery of the dissolution bonds and the appointment and qualification of the trustee, the secretary shall deposit all available existing records of the district in the office of the county clerk of the …

Sec. 51.829. DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT IN COUNTIES OF LESS THAN 11,000 POPULATION. Subject to the provisions of Sections 50.251-50.256 of this code, a district located entirely in a county having a population of less than 11,000, according to the last preceding federal census, may …

Sec. 51.830. PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT. A petition for the dissolution of the district shall be filed with the board and shall state the name of the district and the purpose for which the election is requested. The petition may refer to the order establishing the distr…

Sec. 51.831. SIGNATURES ON PETITION. A petition for dissolution of the district may be signed and filed in two or more copies. The petition shall be signed by a majority in number of the property owners with land in the district and the property owners of a majority in value of t…

Sec. 51.832. PROCEDURE FOR HOLDING ELECTION. (a) An election to determine whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Subchapter E, of this chapter. (b) The ballots for the election shall be printed to provide for voting for o…

Sec. 51.833. ELECTION IN DISTRICT INCLUDING CITY, TOWN, OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. In an election to dissolve a district in which a city, town, or municipal corporation is located, the city, town, or municipal corporation shall be a separate voting precinct, and the ballots cast i…

Sec. 51.834. SUBSEQUENT ELECTION. If the proposition to dissolve the district fails to carry at the election held for that purpose, no other election for the same purpose shall be held within one year after the date of the election. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 387, ch. 58, Sec. 1, e…

Sec. 51.835. DISTRICT DISSOLVED. If a majority of those voting at the election vote in favor of dissolving the district, the district shall be dissolved and shall have no further authority after the election, except that any debts incurred shall be paid and the organization shall…

Sec. 51.836. TAXES TO PAY INDEBTEDNESS AFTER DISSOLUTION. If a district has outstanding bonds or other indebtedness maturing beyond the current year in which the dissolution occurs, the commissioners court of the county in which the district is located shall levy and have assesse…

Sec. 51.851. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Authority" means the Trinity River Authority of Texas. (2) "Basin" or "basinwide" means the entire Trinity River basin. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 858, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

Sec. 51.852. COOPERATION WITH AUTHORITY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, AND OTHER OWNERS. The commission, in conjunction with the authority, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and other reservoir owners in the Trinity River basin, shall develop and implement a coordinated basinwide …

Sec. 51.853. COOPERATION WITH AUTHORITY AND OWNERS. The commission, in conjunction with the authority and all reservoir owners in the Trinity River basin, may review, at least every 10 years, all water rights permits affecting the basin. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 858, Se…

Sec. 51.854. FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM. The commission and the authority, in conjunction with affected political subdivisions, shall develop a basinwide flood warning system to alert the public and local officials of imminent flooding in order to effectuate orderly withdrawal from flo…

Sec. 51.871. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Dissociated municipality" means a home-rule municipality from whose extraterritorial jurisdiction a district is transferred under this subchapter. (2) "Associated municipality" means a home-rule municipality into whose extraterri…

Sec. 51.872. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER DISTRICT BETWEEN MUNICIPALITIES' EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. The board of directors of a district by order may transfer the district from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another muni…

Sec. 51.873. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only to a district that: (1) has a contiguous area of more than 1,000 acres; (2) is within the jurisdiction of two or more counties; (3) is within the jurisdiction of two river authorities, one of which has issued an interbasin …

Sec. 51.874. EFFECT OF TRANSFER. On and after the effective date of the board's order under Section 51.872 of this chapter, the district: (1) is subject to a municipal ordinance that applies to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the associated municipality; and (2) is not subje…

Sec. 51.875. SUBCHAPTER SUPERSEDES. To the extent of any conflict, this subchapter controls over any other law related to the creation, application, or operation of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 97, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1…