Texas § SD.8501.162 - ADDITIONAL POWERS RELATING TO ACQUISITION OR OPERATION OF PROPERTY

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§ SD.8501.162. ADDITIONAL POWERS RELATING TO ACQUISITION OR OPERATION OF PROPERTY

ADDITIONAL POWERS RELATING TO ACQUISITION OR OPERATION OF PROPERTY. (a) In this section, "property" includes a right, including a water right, and includes land and a tenement, easement, improvement, reservoir, dam, canal, lateral, plant, work, and facility. (b) The authority may investigate, plan, acquire, construct, maintain, or operate any property the authority considers necessary or proper for the accomplishment of the purposes of the authority. (c) The power described by Subsection (b) includes the power to acquire property inside or outside the authority that is incidental or helpful to carrying out the authority's purposes under this chapter. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1277, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2005.

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