Texas § WA.55.620 - GENERAL POWERS AND REGULATIONS
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§ WA.55.620. GENERAL POWERS AND REGULATIONS
GENERAL POWERS AND REGULATIONS. (a) No district may become a party to, purchase, hold under, assign, seek to enforce, or receive benefits from a contract between a landowner and a private canal company which was entered into before the district was created. Rights and privileges owned or possessed by the district are those arising or inherent in the district under this chapter. (b) The district may not: (1) acquire or enforce any lien against the land which was fixed by a contract entered into before the district was created; (2) prosecute or have prosecuted any suit to recover water taxes or assessments which accrued before the district was created; (3) foreclose any lien on land for unpaid water taxes or assessments which accrued before the district was created; (4) avail itself of any rights under a private contract relating to the land which contract was entered into before the district was created; and (5) be held liable for the private contract. (c) The two-year statute of limitation and the provisions of this section may be pleaded as a bar to an action to recover water rents or other assessments which accrued on land in the district before the district was created. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 482, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971. SUBCHAPTER N. TAXATION ON A BENEFIT BASIS
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