Sec. 3831.251. APPLICATION FOR PETITION TO CALL ELECTION

(a) If 10 or more registered voters of the city of Temple file a written application with the city for a petition to authorize the district to impose an ad valorem tax, the city shall issue to the applicants a petition to be circulated among the registered voters of the city for the signatures of voters who want to authorize the district to impose an ad valorem tax.

(b) At the request of petitioners under this section, a petition for a local option election to determine whether the district may impose an ad valorem tax may also provide that at the same election the district shall be authorized to issue obligations payable wholly or partly from that ad valorem tax as permitted under Section 3831.160.

(c) The application for the petition must be titled: "Application for Local Option Election Petition to Enable the Temple Health and Bioscience Economic Development District to Impose an Ad Valorem Tax not to Exceed 15 Cents per $100 Valuation of all Taxable Property in the District."

(d) The application must contain a statement just before the signatures of the applicants that reads substantially as follows: "The petitioners whose signatures appear on this petition intend that the Temple Health and Bioscience Economic Development District be enabled to impose an ad valorem tax not to exceed 15 cents per $100 valuation of all taxable property in the district."

(e) If the petition also seeks an election to authorize the issuance of obligations by the district payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the statement: "and to Issue Bonds Payable in Whole or in Part from the Ad Valorem Tax" must be appended to the title specified by Subsection (c).

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 , Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2007.