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Tex. Government Code § 25.0023 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 25 / Section 25.0023
§ 25.0023. COMPENSATION OF PROBATE COURT JUDGES.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioners court shall set the total annual salary of each judge of a statutory probate court at an amount that is at least equal to the sum of the annual salary as set by the General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012 paid to a district judge with comparable years of service as the statutory probate court judge and any state or county contributions and supplements paid to a district judge in the county, other than contributions received as compensation under Section 74.051. A statutory probate court judge's total annual salary includes any state or county contributions and supplements paid to the judge, other than contributions paid under Section 25.0022(e). For purposes of this subsection, the years of service of a statutory probate court judge include any years of service as:

(1) an appellate court, district court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory county court justice or judge; or

(2) a district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney.

(a-1) The minimum salary prescribed by Subsection (a) that is to be based on the annual salary of a district judge under Section 659.012(b) becomes effective on the first day of the county's fiscal year following the date the judge accrues the years of service required for an increase in salary under Subsection (a).

(a-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the maximum annual salary of a statutory probate court judge is $1,000 less than the sum of the maximum combined annual salary from all state and county sources paid to a district judge entitled to a salary under Section 659.012(b)(2) and any longevity pay received by a district judge in accordance with Section 659.0445(d).

(b) Notwithstanding any other law and in addition to the judge's annual salary, the commissioners court annually shall pay a judge of a statutory probate court who has continuously served as a judge of a statutory probate court or a statutory county court since August 31, 1995, an additional amount equal to the amount of benefit replacement pay a district judge is entitled to receive from the state under Subchapter H, Chapter 659, for equivalent continuous service.

(c) The commissioners court monthly shall pay a statutory probate court judge who has served as a judge of a statutory probate court or a statutory county court for at least 16 years longevity pay in an amount equal to the amount of longevity pay a district judge is entitled to receive from the state for equivalent years of service. The longevity pay is in addition to the judge's monthly salary.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8146.104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8146 / Section 8146.104
§ 8146.104. ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may construct, acquire, improve, maintain, or operate macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or improvements in aid of those roads or turnpikes, inside the district.

(b) A road project must meet all applicable construction standards, zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulatory ordinances of the municipality or county in whose jurisdiction the district is located.

(c) The district may not undertake a road project unless each municipality or county in whose jurisdiction the district is located consents by ordinance or resolution.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 96.002 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 96 / Section 96.002
§ 96.002. LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person is liable as provided by Subsection (b) if:

(1) the person disseminates in any manner information relating to a perishable food product to the public;

(2) the person knows the information is false; and

(3) the information states or implies that the perishable food product is not safe for consumption by the public.

(b) A person who is liable under Subsection (a) is liable to the producer of the perishable food product for damages and any other appropriate relief arising from the person's dissemination of the information.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 11010.201 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 11010 / Section 11010.201
§ 11010.201. REVENUE BONDS, NOTES, AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to bonds, notes, and other obligations that the authority is authorized to issue under other law, to accomplish the purposes of the authority, the authority may issue bonds, notes, or other obligations payable solely from and secured by all or part of any funds or any revenue from any source or sources, including:

(1) fees, rates, and other charges the authority imposes or collects;

(2) the sale of:

(A) water;

(B) water or wastewater services;

(C) water rights or capacity;

(D) water transmission rights, capacity, or services;

(E) water pumping;

(F) wastewater reused directly or indirectly;

(G) aquifer storage and recovery services;

(H) sewer services; or

(I) any other service or product of the authority provided inside or outside the boundaries of the authority;

(3) grants or gifts;

(4) the ownership or operation of all or a designated part of the authority's works, improvements, facilities, plants, or equipment; and

(5) the proceeds of contracts.

(b) Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by the authority may be first or subordinate lien obligations at the board's discretion.

(c) In connection with any bonds, notes, or other obligations of the authority, the authority may exercise any power of an issuer under Chapter 1371, Government Code.

(d) The authority may conduct a public, private, or negotiated sale of the bonds, notes, or other obligations.

(e) The authority may enter into one or more indentures of trust to further secure its bonds, notes, or other obligations.

(f) The authority may issue bonds, notes, or other obligations in more than one series as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. In issuing bonds, notes, or other obligations secured by revenue of the authority, the authority may reserve the right to issue additional bonds, notes, or other obligations secured by the authority's revenue that are on parity with or are senior or subordinate to the bonds, notes, or other obligations issued earlier.

(g) A resolution of the board or a trust indenture securing the bonds, notes, or other obligations may specify additional provisions that constitute a contract between the authority and the authority's bondholders, noteholders, or other obligation holders.

(h) Bonds, notes, or other obligations may be additionally secured by deed of trust or mortgage on any or all of the authority's facilities.

(i) The authority provided by this chapter for the authorization and issuance of bonds, notes, and other obligations is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the authority otherwise established under general law and may not be construed as a limitation on, or a modification of, general law providing for authorization and issuance of bonds, notes, and other forms of obligations. Nothing in this chapter may be construed as affecting any existing contract, bond, note, or other obligation of the authority or any indenture, covenant, mortgage, or other agreement relating to them.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 102.10 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 102 / Section 102.10
§ 102.10.
Status: in_force

Sec. 102.10. DISTILLER AND RECTIFIER: INTEREST IN WHOLESALER. (a) This section applies to the following:

(1) a holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit;

(2) a person, firm, or corporation engaged in distilling or rectifying liquor, either inside or outside this state;

(3) an officer, director, agent, or employee of an entity named in Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection; or

(4) an affiliate of an entity named in Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection, regardless of whether the affiliation is corporate or by management, direction, or control.

(b) No entity named in Subsection (a) of this section may have any interest in the permit, business, assets, or corporate stock of a holder of a wholesaler's permit.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7936.003 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7936 / Section 7936.003
§ 7936.003. CONFIRMATION AND DIRECTORS' ELECTION REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors shall hold an election to confirm the creation of the district and to elect five permanent directors as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.
Tex. Local Government Code § 212.306 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 212 / Section 212.306
§ 212.306. CIVIL ACTION FOR RECEIVERSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) After a final determination that an undeveloped parcel of land is abandoned, unoccupied, and tax delinquent, the municipality shall bring a civil action to have the parcel placed in a receivership. On a final determination that an undeveloped parcel of land is abandoned, unoccupied, and tax delinquent as provided by this subchapter, an owner's or lienholder's rights and legal interests are extinguished, subject to the provisions of this subchapter regarding any net proceeds resulting from the disposition of the property, and transferred to the receiver.

(b) The only allegations required to be pleaded in an action for receivership brought under this section are:

(1) the identification of the applicable parcel of land;

(2) the relationship of the defendant to the real property;

(3) the notice of the administrative hearing given to the owner; and

(4) the administrative determination that the parcel of land is abandoned, unoccupied, and tax delinquent.

(c) The court may appoint as receiver any person with a demonstrated record of knowledge of the problems created by undeveloped parcels of land described by this section. In selecting a receiver, the court may also take into consideration whether the person owns property in the affected area. The court may not appoint as a receiver the municipality, an official or employee of the municipality, a relative of an official or employee of the municipality within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, or a person who may directly benefit from an administrative action taken as a receiver.

(d) In a civil action under this subchapter, the record owners and any lienholders of record of the land subject to the action shall be served with personal notice of the proceedings as provided by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Service on the record owners or lienholders constitutes notice to all unrecorded owners or lienholders.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8350.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8350 / Section 8350.101
§ 8350.101. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the district is created.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3791.0505 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3791 / Section 3791.0505
§ 3791.0505. BONDS SECURED BY AD VALOREM TAXES; ELECTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized at an election under Section 3791.0501, the district may issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes.

(b) Section 375.243, Local Government Code, does not apply to the district.

(c) At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, for each year that all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.

(d) All or any part of any facilities or improvements that may be acquired by a district by the issuance of its bonds may be submitted as a single proposition or as several propositions to be voted on at the election.
Tex. Local Government Code § 212.158 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 212 / Section 212.158
§ 212.158. EFFECT ON OTHER LAW.
Status: in_force

This subchapter does not prohibit the exhibition, play, or necessary incidental action thereto of a sweepstakes not prohibited by Chapter 622, Business & Commerce Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1110.156 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1110 / Section 1110.156
§ 1110.156. ANNUAL AUDIT.
Status: in_force

(a) The board annually shall have an independent audit made of the district's financial condition for the fiscal year.

(b) As soon as the audit is completed, the audit shall be filed at the district's office.
Tex. Transportation Code § 431.104 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 431 / Section 431.104
§ 431.104. ASSUMPTION OF POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body of a local government may assume for the local government the powers and duties of a local government corporation created by the local government.

(b) A local government that assumes the powers and duties of a local government corporation assumes the assets and liabilities of the corporation.

(c) The powers and duties of a local government corporation created by more than one local government may be assumed only if each local government that created the corporation agrees to the assumption.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3897.156 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3897 / Section 3897.156
§ 3897.156. ROADS.
Status: in_force

An improvement project may include a paved, macadamized, or graveled road or street inside and outside the district, to the full extent authorized by Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Government Code § 609.108 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 609 / Section 609.108
§ 609.108. INVESTMENT AND TRANSFER OF DEFERRED AMOUNTS AND INCOME.
Status: in_force

The plan administrator shall:

(1) invest the deferred amounts and investment income of a participating employee in the qualified investment products designated by the employee; and

(2) transfer the deferred amounts and investment income of a participating employee from one qualified investment product to another on the employee's request.
Tex. Utilities Code § 36.205 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 36 / Section 36.205
§ 36.205. PURCHASED POWER COST RECOVERY.
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies only to an increase or decrease in the cost of purchased electricity that has been:

(1) accepted by a federal regulatory authority; or

(2) approved after a hearing by the commission.

(b) The commission may use any appropriate method to provide for the adjustment of the cost of purchased electricity on terms determined by the commission.

(c) Purchased electricity costs may be recovered:

(1) concurrently with the effective date of the changed costs to the purchasing electric utility; or

(2) as soon after the effective date as reasonably practical.

(d) The commission may provide a mechanism to allow an electric utility that has a noncontiguous geographical service area and that purchases power for resale for that noncontiguous service area from electric utilities that are not members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to recover purchased power costs for the area in a manner that reflects the purchased power cost for that specific geographical noncontiguous area. The commission may not require an electric cooperative corporation to use the mechanism provided under this section unless the electric cooperative corporation requests its use.

(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an electric utility may apply to the commission for review and approval of an agreement between the electric utility and another person for the purchase of power by the electric utility if approval by the commission is a pre-condition to the effectiveness of the electric utility's right or obligation to purchase power under the agreement. This subsection applies only to an agreement with a term of three years or more. The commission by rule shall implement this subsection consistent with the standards and procedures in the commission's rules governing contested cases on certificates of convenience and necessity for generating facilities adopted under Sections 37.056 and 37.058. This subsection expires September 1, 2033.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1001.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1001 / Section 1001.002
§ 1001.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is:

(1) a public entity performing an essential public function; and

(2) a body politic and corporate.

(b) The functions of the district are governmental and public.
Tex. Transportation Code § 251.017 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 251 / Section 251.017
§ 251.017. COUNTY AUTHORITY TO SET FEE.
Status: in_force

The commissioners court of a county may set a reasonable fee for the county's issuance of a permit authorized by this chapter for which a fee is not specifically prescribed. The fee must be set and itemized in the county's budget as part of the budget preparation process.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 571.001 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 571 / Section 571.001
§ 571.001. SHORT TITLE.
Status: in_force

This subtitle may be cited as the Texas Mental Health Code.
Tex. Government Code § 30.00146 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 30 / Section 30.00146
§ 30.00146. NO DE NOVO APPEALS.
Status: in_force

An appeal from the municipal court of record may not be taken to a trial de novo in the appellate court.
Tex. Government Code § 2106.002 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2106 / Section 2106.002
§ 2106.002. STATEWIDE COST ALLOCATION PLAN.
Status: in_force

(a) The office of the governor shall prepare annually a statewide cost allocation plan.

(b) The plan must:

(1) identify the costs of providing statewide support services to each state agency;

(2) allocate to each state agency an appropriate portion of the total costs of statewide support services, including costs identified under Subdivision (1);

(3) identify, to the extent possible, the amount of federally reimbursable indirect costs in each allocated portion; and

(4) develop and prescribe a billing procedure that ensures each state agency is billed for all costs allocated to the agency under Subdivision (2) for which the agency is not obligated to pay another state agency under other law.

(c) The office of the governor shall distribute a copy of the plan to each state agency.
Tex. Education Code § 51.874 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 51 / Section 51.874
§ 51.874. CRITERIA IN SELECTING PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

In selecting programs to be supported with money from the fund, the board shall give priority to programs addressing the needs of public high school students whose economic conditions limit their access to athletic facilities, programs, and opportunities. The board shall also consider other relevant factors, including whether a program:

(1) promotes gender equality; and

(2) includes the participation of collegiate-level coaches and athletes, to the extent the participation is allowed by the rules of the national intercollegiate athletic association of which the institution of higher education operating the program is a member.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 61.019 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 61 / Section 61.019
§ 61.019. LOCAL REGULATION OF SEED PROHIBITED.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by Subsection (c), a political subdivision may not adopt an order, ordinance, or other measure that regulates agricultural seed, vegetable seed, weed seed, or any other seed in any manner, including planting seed or cultivating plants grown from seed.

(b) An order, ordinance, or other measure adopted by a political subdivision that violates Subsection (a) is void.

(c) A political subdivision may take any action otherwise prohibited by this section to:

(1) comply with any federal or state requirements;

(2) avoid a federal or state penalty or fine;

(3) attain or maintain compliance with federal or state environmental standards, including state water quality standards; or

(4) implement a:

(A) water conservation plan;

(B) drought contingency plan; or

(C) voluntary program as part of a conservation water management strategy included in the applicable regional water plan or state water plan.

(d) Nothing in this section preempts or otherwise limits the authority of any county or municipality to adopt and enforce zoning regulations, fire codes, building codes, storm water regulations, nuisance regulations as authorized by Section 342.004, Health and Safety Code, or waste disposal restrictions.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 86.006 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 86 / Section 86.006
§ 86.006. CONVICTED PERSON.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, a person is considered convicted in a case if:

(1) sentence is imposed; or

(2) the person receives a fine, probation, or deferred adjudication.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8808.156 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8808 / Section 8808.156
§ 8808.156. BALLOTS FOR ELECTION.
Status: in_force

The ballot for an election under Section 8808.155 shall read as follows:

"By voting YES on this ballot, you are voting in favor of the proposed merger agreement between the (name of water control and improvement district) and the Duval County Groundwater Conservation District under which the debts, liabilities, obligations, assets, and facilities of (name of water control and improvement district) are to be transferred to the district, the district is to perform the functions and services previously provided by the (name of water control and improvement district), and the (name of water control and improvement district) is to be dissolved. By voting NO on this ballot, you are voting against the proposed merger agreement."
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 89.050 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 89 / Section 89.050
§ 89.050. OPERATOR REPORT.
Status: in_force

For each inactive well for which 15 years have elapsed from the date on which the relevant well completion report was filed with the commission, an operator must submit an annual report to the commission with information regarding the results of a successful fluid level test or hydraulic pressure test of the well conducted in accordance with commission rules. The report must include appropriate documentation of the results of the test.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3839.102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3839 / Section 3839.102
§ 3839.102. NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The board by resolution may authorize the creation of a nonprofit corporation to assist and act for the district in implementing a project or providing a service authorized by this chapter.

(b) The nonprofit corporation:

(1) has each power of and is considered for purposes of this chapter to be a local government corporation created under Chapter 431, Transportation Code; and

(2) may implement any project and provide any service authorized by this chapter.

(c) The board shall appoint the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation. The board of directors of the nonprofit corporation shall serve in the same manner as the board of directors of a local government corporation created under Chapter 431, Transportation Code, except that a director of the corporation is not required to reside in the district.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1101.710 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1101 / Section 1101.710
§ 1101.710. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.
Status: in_force

A proceeding under this subchapter is subject to Chapter 2001, Government Code.