Tex. Water Code § 15.475 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 15 / Section 15.475
§ 15.475. ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may issue revenue bonds for the purpose of providing money for the fund.

(b) The board may issue revenue bonds to refund revenue bonds or bonds and obligations issued or incurred in accordance with other provisions of law.

(c) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter are special obligations of the board payable only from and secured by designated income and receipts of the fund, or of one or more accounts in the fund, including principal of and interest paid and to be paid on fund assets or income from accounts created within the fund by the board, as determined by the board.

(d) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter do not constitute indebtedness of the state as prohibited by the constitution.

(e) The board may require fund participants to make charges, levy taxes, or otherwise provide for sufficient money to pay acquired obligations.

(f) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter must be authorized by resolution of the board and must have the form and characteristics and bear the designations as the resolution provides.

(g) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter may:

(1) bear interest at the rate or rates payable annually or otherwise;

(2) be dated;

(3) mature at the time or times, serially, as term revenue bonds, or otherwise in not more than 50 years from their dates;

(4) be callable before stated maturity on the terms and at the prices, be in the denominations, be in the form, either coupon or registered, carry registration privileges as to principal only or as to both principal and interest and as to successive exchange of coupon for registered bonds or one denomination for bonds of other denominations, and successive exchange of registered revenue bonds for coupon revenue bonds, be executed in the manner, and be payable at the place or places inside or outside the state, as provided by the resolution;

(5) be issued in temporary or permanent form;

(6) be issued in one or more installments and from time to time as required and sold at a price or prices and under terms determined by the board to be the most advantageous reasonably obtainable; and

(7) be issued on a parity with and be secured in the manner as other revenue bonds authorized to be issued by this subchapter or may be issued without parity and secured differently than other revenue bonds.

(h) Section 17.955 applies to revenue bonds issued under this subchapter in the same manner as that section applies to water financial assistance bonds.

(i) All proceedings relating to the issuance of revenue bonds issued under this subchapter shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination. If the attorney general finds that the revenue bonds have been authorized in accordance with law, the attorney general shall approve the revenue bonds, and the revenue bonds shall be registered by the comptroller. After the approval and registration, the revenue bonds are incontestable in any court or other forum for any reason and are valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms for all purposes.

(j) The proceeds received from the sale of revenue bonds issued under this subchapter may be deposited or invested in any manner and in such investments as may be specified in the resolution or other proceedings authorizing those obligations. Money in the fund or accounts created by this subchapter or created in the resolution or other proceedings authorizing the revenue bonds may be invested in any manner and in any obligations as may be specified in the resolution or other proceedings.