Sec. 51.196. DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGROUND WATER BY CERTAIN DISTRICTS  


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  • A conservation and reclamation district created by special law under the authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and designated as a municipal water district to which the administrative and taxing provisions applicable to districts governed by this chapter apply, may develop or otherwise acquire underground sources of water, notwithstanding a provision in that district's special law otherwise prohibiting the development of acquisition of underground water.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1010, Sec. 4.45, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.