Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 552.074. AUTHORIZED INVESTMENT. A certificate of special assessment issued under this subchapter, including a certificate issued under a joint proceeding under Section 552.072, is a legal and authorized investment for a bank, savings bank, trust company, savings and loan ass…

Sec. 552.075. HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY. A home-rule municipality to which this subchapter applies may adopt plans and specifications for improvements as provided by this subchapter and may pay in cash to the contractor who is the successful bidder that part of the cost assessed aga…

Sec. 552.091. APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER TO CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. To exercise authority under this subchapter, a municipality must have: (1) a population of less than 15,000; (2) levied the maximum rate of tax allowed by law; and (3) adopted Subchapters A through C, Chapter 312,…

Sec. 552.092. CONSTRUCTION OF SANITARY SEWERS. (a) The governing body of a municipality may order the construction and installation of sanitary sewers if it is presented with a petition that is signed by at least two-thirds of the owners of property abutting the proposed construc…

Sec. 552.101. MUNICIPAL WATER CONTRACTS. The governing body of a municipality in which there is a water corporation may contract with the corporation to supply water to a street, alley, lot, square, or public place in a municipality. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 3…

Sec. 552.102. EMINENT DOMAIN BY MUNICIPAL SEWER PROVIDERS. (a) A corporation incorporated in this state for the purpose of owning, constructing, or maintaining a sewer system in a municipality may by eminent domain condemn private property to: (1) construct and maintain sewer pip…

Sec. 552.103. RIGHTS OF WATER CORPORATION PROVIDING SERVICE TO MUNICIPALITY; EMINENT DOMAIN. (a) A water corporation in a municipality may sell and furnish water required by a municipality for a public or private building or for any other purpose. (b) A water corporation may lay …

Sec. 552.104. LOCATION OF WATER LINES OUTSIDE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES. (a) A water corporation or municipality may lay water system pipes, mains, conductors, or other fixtures through, under, along, across, or over a public road, a public street, or a public waterway not in a munici…

Sec. 552.105. RELOCATION OF WATER LINE TO ALLOW CHANGE TO TRAFFIC LANE. (a) The authority of the Texas Transportation Commission under this section is limited to a water line on a state highway not in a municipality. The authority of the commissioners court under this section is …

Sec. 552.121. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies only to a home-rule municipality that owns an electric utility system, that by ordinance or charter elects to have the management and control of the utility system governed by a board of trustees, and that: (1) ha…

Sec. 552.122. TRANSFER OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEM. (a) A municipality by ordinance may transfer management and control of the municipality's electric utility system to a board of trustees appointed by the municipality's governing body. (b) The municipali…

Sec. 552.123. AUTHORITY OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. (a) The municipality by ordinance may vest in the board the power to establish rates and related terms for its municipally owned electric utility system. (b) The municipality may delegate to the board of trustees all or part of the mu…

Sec. 552.124. EFFECT OF PREVIOUSLY ISSUED BONDS. (a) A municipality or an existing board of trustees may not exercise a power provided by this subchapter in relation to an obligation issued before June 14, 1989, unless the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the obligation or t…

Sec. 552.141. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies only to a home-rule municipality that owns or may own a water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage utility system, by ordinance or charter elects to have the management and control of two or more of those utility…

Sec. 552.142. TRANSFER OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF UTILITY SYSTEM. (a) A municipality by ordinance may transfer management and control of two or more of its water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage systems to a board of trustees. A municipality by ordinance may grant the boar…

Sec. 552.901. RELOCATION OR REPLACEMENT OF WATER OR SEWER LATERALS. (a) By ordinance, a municipality may contract for the relocation or replacement of a sanitation sewer lateral or water lateral that serves a residential structure on private property to connect the lateral to a n…

Sec. 552.902. OPERATION OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYSTEMS BY HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITIES. (a) If a home-rule municipality, whose charter authorizes it to furnish electric light and power service inside and outside the municipal boundaries, owned and operated a municipal el…

Sec. 552.903. AGREEMENT WITH CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION DISTRICT. (a) A municipality may agree or contract with a conservation and reclamation district created under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution for the supply and purchase of hydroelectric power or energy.…

Sec. 552.904. LEASE OF NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A municipality that owns its natural gas distribution system and that has conducted an election before July 13, 1959, that resulted in a vote to sell the system may, by majority vote of the gove…

Sec. 552.905. OPERATION OF CABLE TV SYSTEMS BY GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITIES. A general-law municipality may own and/or operate a cable TV system. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 674, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995. Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 402.905 by Acts 2007,…

Sec. 552.906. MUNICIPAL UTILITY PLANTS. (a) This section applies only to a general-law municipality that owns a utility plant that provides utility service. (b) The governing body of a municipality may: (1) by ordinance regulate the rates and compensation charged the public by th…

Sec. 552.907. CONSTRUCTION OF WATER OR WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENTS TO PRESERVE WATER QUALITY AQUIFER. (a) This section applies only to territory located in a municipality or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality and located over the recharge zone of an aquifer that p…

Sec. 552.909. PROHIBITED EMPLOYMENT OF OR CONTRACTING WITH FORMER TRUSTEE OR BOARD MEMBER. (a) This section applies to a municipality that creates a board of trustees or other board to manage and control a water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage utility system that the munici…

Sec. 552.910. AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FOR COLLECTION OF PAST DUE UTILITY OR SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SERVICE FEES. (a) A municipality that operates a utility system, as defined by Section 552.001, or provides solid waste disposal services may enter an agreement f…

Sec. 552.911. DUTIES OF WATER SERVICE PROVIDER TO AN AREA SERVED BY SEWER SERVICE OF CERTAIN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (a) This section applies only to an area: (1) that is located in a county that has a population of more than 1.3 million; and (2) in which a customer's sewer servi…

Sec. 552.912. CERTAIN DAMAGES CAUSED BY SEWAGE BACKUP. (a) A municipality or a river authority, other than a river authority listed in Subsection (c), may pay actual property damages caused by the backup of the municipality's or river authority's sanitary sewer system regardless …

Sec. 552.913. COMBINED HEATING AND POWER SYSTEMS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a home-rule municipality that: (1) has a population of more than 100,000; (2) owns and operates an electric utility that is a member of a municipal power agency; and (3) i…

Sec. 552.914. UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section, "utility system" means an electric, water, sewer, solid waste disposal, drainage utility, or natural gas system, or any combination of those systems. (b) This section applies only to a municipality d…

Sec. 552.915. RECORDS OF MUNICIPALLY OWNED ELECTRIC UTILITY PROVIDING BROADBAND SERVICES. (a) In this section, "broadband service" has the meaning assigned by Section 181.048, Utilities Code. (b) This section applies only to a municipally owned utility that: (1) provides electric…

Sec. 552.916. PROHIBITION ON RATE DISCRIMINATION. A municipality may not establish a rate for water or sewer utility service applicable only to entities that qualify for a sales tax or ad valorem tax exemption that is higher than a rate established for entities that receive compa…

Sec. 561.001. FLOOD CONTROL PROPERTY; CONDEMNATION. (a) A county may acquire public or private real property, including easements and rights-of-way, for the purpose of building canals, drains, levees, and other improvements to provide for flood control and water outlets. The coun…

Sec. 561.002. JOINT PROJECT. (a) The commissioners court of a county may contract with a governmental unit, including a county, municipality, or other political subdivision, to jointly acquire a right-of-way or to jointly construct or maintain a canal, drain, levee, or other impr…

Sec. 561.003. PLANS AND PROGRAMS. (a) The commissioners court of a county may contract with the federal soil conservation service, a state soil conservation district, the state extension service, a conservation and reclamation district, a drainage district, a water control and im…

Sec. 561.004. SURVEY BY COUNTY WITH TAX VALUATION OF $290 MILLION OR MORE. In a county with a tax valuation of $290 million or more according to the most recently approved county tax roll, the commissioners court of the county may spend not more than $15,000 in any one year out o…

Sec. 561.005. COOPERATION WITH UNITED STATES. (a) The commissioners court of a county that borders Mexico, or of a county adjacent to a county that borders Mexico, may, in consideration of the benefits of flood control work performed by the United States, by resolution agree to: …

Sec. 561.006. GRANT OF SEAWALL RIGHT-OF-WAY. (a) The commissioners court of a county by order may, if it considers it proper, donate and grant to the state or to a nonprofit eleemosynary institution incorporated under the laws of this state and operated for the benefit of the pub…

Sec. 561.007. MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a county that: (1) has a population of 190,000 or more, is adjacent to a county with a population of 3.3 million or more, and borders the Gulf of Mexico; and (2) operates a road department s…

Sec. 561.008. BREAKWATERS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) The commissioners court of a county that borders the Gulf of Mexico, other than Jefferson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces, Orange, or Willacy County, may: (1) construct breakwaters; (2) issue bonds, time warrants, or certificates of ind…

Sec. 561.009. REFERENDUM ON FLOOD CONTROL TAX AND PROJECTS FUNDED. (a) The commissioners court of a county may order a referendum on the question of whether: (1) flood control taxes should be increased; (2) flood control taxes should be decreased; or (3) an existing or proposed f…

Sec. 561.010. PROVISION OF FLOOD RELIEF TO COLONIAS. (a) In this section, "colonia" means a geographic area that consists of 11 or more dwellings located in close proximity to each other in an area that may be described as a community or neighborhood and that: (1) has a majority …

Sec. 562.001. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "county surplus water" means water that a county has acquired from an underground source for the county's water supply and that is not needed for county purposes. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Renumbered f…

Sec. 562.002. SALE OF SURPLUS WATER; USE OF PROCEEDS. (a) The commissioners court of a county may sell and deliver county surplus water to: (1) a public corporation of this state; or (2) a political subdivision of this state, including a municipality, water control and improvemen…

Sec. 562.003. ESTABLISHMENT OF RATE. The commissioners court may determine the rate at which county surplus water is sold. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 412.003 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B…

Sec. 562.004. TERM OF CONTRACT. A contract to sell county surplus water may not exceed a term of 40 years. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 412.004 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.…

Sec. 562.005. USE OR RESALE. A buyer of county surplus water may use or resell the water for any lawful purpose. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 412.005 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), S…

Sec. 562.011. MATAGORDA COUNTY. (a) The Commissioners Court of Matagorda County may acquire, construct, or operate a water supply system or sewage system to serve areas of the county located outside the limits of a municipality. (b) The county may enter a management or lease agre…