Texas § SD.8513.0310 - GENERAL WATER SUPPLY POWERS
Full text of Texas The Texas Constitution § SD.8513.0310 — GENERAL WATER SUPPLY POWERS, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ SD.8513.0310. GENERAL WATER SUPPLY POWERS
GENERAL WATER SUPPLY POWERS. (a) The authority, inside or outside its boundaries, may: (1) construct, acquire, equip, acquire storage rights at, operate, or maintain a dam or reservoir; (2) construct, operate, maintain, or otherwise provide water supply lines, water purification, and water pumping systems and facilities; (3) provide water supply for municipalities, including selling water and standby service to any person; (4) provide water for irrigation of lands and the development of commercial and industrial enterprises; and (5) acquire storage capacity in any dam constructed or to be constructed by or with the assistance of this state or the United States from any person, this state, or the United States. (b) The authority may bring water into the authority. (c) It is the intent of this chapter that the authority is primarily concerned with the conservation, control, storage, distribution, and sale of water in bulk quantities in the public interest and only incidentally with the retail sale of water insofar as it does not compete with municipal water distributors and then only when necessary or convenient as a service to the public. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 240 (H.B. 2692 ), Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 2025.
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Section SD.8513.0310 ("GENERAL WATER SUPPLY POWERS") is part of the The Texas Constitution, the codified statutory law of Texas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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