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Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1102.305 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1102 / Section 1102.305
§ 1102.305. TRANSFER OR ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS.
Status: in_force

(a) If a majority of the votes in the election held under this subchapter favor dissolution, the board shall:

(1) transfer the land, buildings, improvements, equipment, and other assets that belong to the district to Brazoria County or another governmental entity in Brazoria County; or

(2) administer the property, assets, and debts until all money has been disposed of and all district debts have been paid or settled.

(b) If the district makes the transfer under Subsection (a)(1), the county or entity assumes all debts and obligations of the district at the time of the transfer, and the district is dissolved.

(c) If the district does not make the transfer under Subsection (a)(1) and the board administers the property, assets, and debts of the district under Subsection (a)(2), the district is dissolved when all the money has been disposed of and all district debts have been paid or settled.
Tex. Government Code § 823.303 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 823 / Section 823.303
§ 823.303. MILITARY LEAVE CREDIT.
Status: in_force

A member who performs military service creditable in the retirement system but who does not establish credit for the service by making the deposits required by Section 823.302 is entitled to credit of a year for each year of military service performed, if the member requests the credit in writing before the later of the date of application for retirement or the effective date of retirement. The credit is usable only in determining eligibility for, but not the amount of, benefits under Section 824.406.
Tex. Local Government Code § 501.310 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 501 / Section 501.310
§ 501.310. RESTATEMENT WITH ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) A corporation may:

(1) restate the entire text of the certificate of formation as amended or supplemented by all certificates evidencing the filing of a certificate of amendment previously issued by the secretary of state; and

(2) as part of the restatement, make additional amendments to the certificate of formation.

(b) A restatement under this section must:

(1) state that each additional amendment to the certificate of formation conforms to this subtitle;

(2) contain any statement required by this subtitle for the certificate of amendment, except that the full text of an additional amendment is not required to be set out other than in the restatement itself;

(3) contain a statement that:

(A) the restatement is an accurate copy of the certificate of formation and all amendments to the certificate of formation that are in effect and all additional amendments made to the certificate of formation; and

(B) the restatement does not contain any other change to the certificate of formation; and

(4) restate the text of the entire certificate of formation as amended or supplemented by all certificates evidencing the filing of a certificate of amendment previously issued by the secretary of state and as additionally amended by the restated certificate of formation.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 136.009 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 136 / Section 136.009
§ 136.009. RULES.
Status: in_force

(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to administer this chapter, including rules that require:

(1) the commission to review the lending and servicing practices of a development corporation to ensure the practices conform to generally accepted accounting principles;

(2) an eligible community health center to enter into an agreement with the development corporation that states the terms of the loan made to the center;

(3) the development corporation to provide to the commission semiannual reports giving details of the status of each loan made under the program;

(4) the development corporation to require annual audits of community health centers receiving loans under the program; and

(5) the commission to provide oversight of the development corporation as necessary to qualify the development corporation for loan guarantees from federal and state programs.

(b) Under rules adopted by the executive commissioner, the development corporation may:

(1) make grants to eligible community health centers from money other than money that was derived from a legislative appropriation; or

(2) seek money from state or federal agencies or private sources to supplement and complement the money received under the program.

(c) The executive commissioner may adopt other rules as necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7930.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7930 / Section 7930.101
§ 7930.101. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS FOR ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may issue bonds or other obligations payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, impact fees, revenue, contract payments, grants, or other district money, or any combination of those sources, to pay for a road project authorized by Section 7930.053.

(b) The district may not issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes to finance a road project unless the issuance is approved by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose.

(c) At the time of issuance, the total principal amount of bonds or other obligations issued or incurred to finance road projects and payable from ad valorem taxes may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the real property in the district.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 123.003 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 123 / Section 123.003
§ 123.003. DEFENSE.
Status: in_force

(a) A switchboard operator or an officer, employee, or agent of a communication common carrier whose facilities are used in the transmission of a wire communication may intercept, disclose, or use a communication in the normal course of employment if engaged in an activity that is necessary to service or for the protection of the carrier's rights or property. A communication common carrier may not use service observation or random monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks.

(b) It is a defense to an action under Section 123.002 that an interception, disclosure, or use of a communication is permitted by this section.

(c) A defendant must establish by a preponderance of the evidence a defense raised under this section.
Tex. Government Code § 436.205 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 436 / Section 436.205
§ 436.205. EVALUATION OF APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

The commission shall evaluate each grant application and assign the applicant a score based on:

(1) the significance of the adverse or positive effect within the local governmental entity; and

(2) any other criteria established by the commission.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3945.0603 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3945 / Section 3945.0603
§ 3945.0603. SALES AND USE TAX RATE.
Status: in_force

(a) On or after the date the results are declared of an election held under Section 3945.0602, at which the voters approved imposition of the tax authorized by this subchapter, the board shall determine and adopt by resolution or order the initial rate of the tax, which must be in one or more increments of one-eighth of one percent.

(b) After the election held under Section 3945.0602, the board may increase or decrease the rate of the tax by one or more increments of one-eighth of one percent.

(c) The initial rate of the tax or any rate resulting from subsequent increases or decreases may not exceed the lesser of:

(1) the maximum rate authorized by the district voters at the election held under Section 3945.0602; or

(2) a rate that, when added to the rates of all sales and use taxes imposed by other political subdivisions with territory in the district, would result in the maximum combined rate prescribed by Section 321.101(f), Tax Code, at any location in the district.
Tex. Utilities Code § 39.409 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 39 / Section 39.409
§ 39.409. RECOUPMENT OF TRANSITION TO COMPETITION COSTS.
Status: in_force

An electric utility subject to this subchapter is entitled to recover, as provided by this section, all reasonable and necessary expenditures made or incurred before September 1, 2001, to comply with the provisions of this chapter. Not later than December 1, 2001, each electric utility subject to this subchapter may file with the commission an application for recovery detailing the amounts spent or incurred. After notice and hearing, the commission shall review the amounts and, if found to be reasonable and necessary, approve a transition to competition retail rate rider mechanism for the recovery of the approved transition to competition costs. A rate rider implemented to recover approved transition to competition costs shall expire not later than December 31, 2006.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8349.0104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8349 / Section 8349.0104
§ 8349.0104. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors may not hold an election under Section 8349.0103 until each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located has consented by ordinance or resolution to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3876.152 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3876 / Section 3876.152
§ 3876.152. RULES.
Status: in_force

The district may adopt rules covering its public parking system.
Tex. Government Code § 54.2809 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54 / Section 54.2809
§ 54.2809. JUDICIAL IMMUNITY.
Status: in_force

A criminal law magistrate court associate judge, a jail magistrate, and each other magistrate in the criminal law magistrate court has the same judicial immunity as a district judge.
Tex. Government Code § 661.207 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 661 / Section 661.207
§ 661.207. DONATION OF SICK LEAVE.
Status: in_force

(a) An employee may donate any amount of the employee's accrued sick leave to another employee who:

(1) is employed in the same state agency as the donor employee; and

(2) has exhausted the employee's sick leave, including any time the individual may be eligible to withdraw from a sick leave pool.

(b) An employee may not provide or receive remuneration or a gift in exchange for a sick leave donation under this section.

(c) An employee who receives donated sick leave under this section may not:

(1) use sick leave donated to the employee under this section except as provided by Sections 661.202(d) and (e); or

(2) notwithstanding any other law, receive service credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for any sick leave donated to the employee under this section that is unused on the last day of that employee's employment.

(d) In this section, "employee" and "state agency" have the meanings assigned by Section 661.001.
Tex. Property Code § 202.005 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 202 / Section 202.005
§ 202.005. WITHDRAWAL OF SIGNATURE.
Status: in_force

(a) A signature may be withdrawn from a petition authorized to be filed in connection with terminating restrictive covenants, as provided by this section.

(b) To withdraw a signature, the signer must request that the signature be withdrawn.

(c) To be effective, a withdrawal request must:

(1) be in writing and be signed and acknowledged by the signer of the petition;

(2) be filed with the authority with whom the petition is required to be filed not later than the day before the petition filing deadline, if any; and

(3) be delivered in the form of a copy of the request to the circulator of the petition not later than the date the request is filed or by the effective date of this chapter, whichever is later.

(d) A withdrawal request or copy filed or delivered by mail is considered to be filed or delivered at the time of its receipt by the appropriate person.

(e) The filing of an effective withdrawal request nullifies the signature on the petition and places the signer in the same position as if the signer had not signed the petition.
Tex. Government Code § 1501.256 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1501 / Section 1501.256
§ 1501.256. PETITION; ELECTION.
Status: in_force

(a) If, before the governing body of the municipality is scheduled to adopt the ordinance authorizing the bonds, a petition is filed with the secretary of the municipality requesting an election on the issuance of the bonds that is signed by at least 10 percent of the registered voters who are resident owners of taxable property in the municipality, the municipality may not issue the bonds unless a proposition for the issuance of the bonds is approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting at an election held for that purpose.

(b) The governing body may hold an election on the issuance of the bonds regardless of whether a petition is filed.

(c) The governing body shall hold the election in the manner provided by Chapter 1251.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8266.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8266 / Section 8266.002
§ 8266.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district in Grayson County created under and essential to accomplish the purposes of Section 52, Article III, and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Local Government Code § 373A.212 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 373A / Section 373A.212
§ 373A.212. OPEN RECORDS AND MEETINGS.
Status: in_force

The land bank shall comply with the requirements of Chapters 551 and 552, Government Code.
Tex. Property Code § 53.084 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 53 / Section 53.084
§ 53.084. OWNER'S LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) Except for the amount the owner fails to reserve under Subchapter E, the owner is not liable for any amount paid to the original contractor before the owner is authorized to withhold funds under this subchapter.

(b) If the owner has received a notice required by Section 53.056 or 53.057, if the lien has been secured, and if the claim has been reduced to final judgment, the owner is liable and the owner's property is subject to a claim for any money paid to the original contractor after the owner was authorized to withhold funds under this subchapter. The owner is liable for that amount in addition to any amount for which the owner is liable under Subchapter E.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 368.006 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 368 / Section 368.006
§ 368.006. FORMS.
Status: in_force

The commissioners court of a county may develop a single manifest form with a uniform manifest registration and numbering system to be used by the county and each participating municipality.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1005.113 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1005 / Section 1005.113
§ 1005.113. COST OF RELOCATING OR ALTERING PROPERTY.
Status: in_force

In exercising the power of eminent domain, if the board requires relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade, or altering the construction of any railroad, highway, pipeline, or electric transmission and electric distribution, telegraph, or telephone lines, conduits, poles, or facilities, the district must bear the actual cost of that activity to provide comparable replacement without enhancement of facilities, after deducting the net salvage value derived from the old facility.
Tex. Insurance Code § 824.001 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 824 / Section 824.001
§ 824.001. AUTHORITY TO MERGE OR CONSOLIDATE.
Status: in_force

Two or more insurance corporations that engage in a similar line of the business of insurance may merge or consolidate under this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9077.0002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9077 / Section 9077.0002
§ 9077.0002. EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire real estate located in Bell County.

(b) The district must exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code.

(c) The district's authority under this section to exercise the power of eminent domain expired on September 1, 2013, unless the district submitted a letter to the comptroller in accordance with Section 2206.101(b), Government Code, not later than December 31, 2012.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9006.004 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9006 / Section 9006.004
§ 9006.004. AUTHORITY TERRITORY; EXCLUSION.
Status: in_force

(a) The authority is composed of portions of Cooke, Denton, Montague, and Wise Counties as described by Sections 2 and 2a, Chapter 372, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 8280-234, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that territory may have been modified under:

(1) Subchapter O, Chapter 51, Water Code, before September 1, 1995;

(2) Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code; or

(3) other law.

(b) An error or discrepancy in the field notes of the authority's boundaries contained in Section 2, Chapter 372, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 8280-234, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), does not affect the validity of the authority or any of its powers.

(c) Territory in the authority that is annexed by a municipality on or after January 1, 2009, remains in the authority.
Tex. Occupations Code § 164.057 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 164 / Section 164.057
§ 164.057. REQUIRED SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall suspend a physician's license on proof that the physician has been:

(1) initially convicted of:

(A) a felony;

(B) a misdemeanor under Chapter 22, Penal Code, other than a misdemeanor punishable by fine only;

(C) a misdemeanor on conviction of which a defendant is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure;

(D) a misdemeanor under Section 25.07, Penal Code; or

(E) a misdemeanor under Section 25.071, Penal Code; or

(2) subject to an initial finding by the trier of fact of guilt of a felony under:

(A) Chapter 481 or 483, Health and Safety Code;

(B) Section 485.033, Health and Safety Code; or

(C) the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. Section 801 et seq.).

(b) On final conviction for an offense described by Subsection (a), the board shall revoke the physician's license.

(c) The board shall revoke the license of a physician placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for an offense under:

(1) Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code (sexual assault of a child);

(2) Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code (aggravated sexual assault of a child); or

(3) Section 21.11, Penal Code (indecency with a child).
Tex. Water Code § 30.027 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 30 / Section 30.027
§ 30.027. CONTRACT WITH PUBLIC AGENCY.
Status: in_force

A public agency may make contracts with a district under which the district will make a disposal system available to the public agency and will furnish waste collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal services to the public agency, group of public agencies, or other persons through the district's disposal system.
Tex. Education Code § 56.126 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 56 / Section 56.126
§ 56.126. REVENUE BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may by resolution authorize the issuance of revenue bonds to operate the program of making loans from the fund under this subchapter. The board may issue the bonds in the form, with the characteristics, and bearing the designations provided in the resolution.

(b) The board may pledge all or part of the revenue derived from the operation of the program of making loans from the fund to secure the bonds.

(c) The board must issue the bonds in the manner provided by Chapter 1201, Government Code.

(d) The bonds are special obligations of the board payable only from designated income and receipts of the board, including principal and interest payments on loans from the fund, income from the accounts created in the fund, and receipts and other revenues pledged to the retirement of the bonds.

(e) The bonds do not constitute indebtedness of the state.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1067.056 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1067 / Section 1067.056
§ 1067.056. COMPENSATION; EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

A director is not entitled to compensation but is entitled to reimbursement for actual expenses incurred in attending to district business. The expenses must be:

(1) reported in the district's records; and

(2) approved by the remainder of the board.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1059.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1059 / Section 1059.106
§ 1059.106. MOBILE EMERGENCY MEDICAL OR AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE.
Status: in_force

The district may operate or provide for the operation of a mobile emergency medical or air ambulance service.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8465.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8465 / Section 8465.002
§ 8465.002. NATURE AND PURPOSES OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.

(b) The district is created to accomplish the purposes of:

(1) a municipal utility district as provided by general law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and

(2) Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8807.005 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8807 / Section 8807.005
§ 8807.005. ADDITION OF ADJACENT COUNTY TO DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) A county adjoining the district may petition to join the district by resolution of the county commissioners court.

(b) If, after a hearing on the resolution, the board finds that the addition of the county would benefit the district and the county to be added, the board by resolution may approve the addition of the county to the district.

(c) The addition of a county under this section is not final until approved by the voters in the county to be added at an election held for that purpose.

(d) The ballots for the election shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The addition of (county's name) to the Lower Trinity Groundwater Conservation District."

(e) If a majority of the votes are cast in favor of the addition of the county to the district, the county is added to the district, and the district boundaries are adjusted accordingly. If less than a majority of the votes are cast in favor of the addition of the county to the district, the county is not added to the district.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1.001 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1 / Section 1.001
§ 1.001. PURPOSE OF CODE.
Status: repealed

(a) This code is enacted as a part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun by the Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the legislature in the law codified as Section 323.007, Government Code. The program contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's general and permanent statute law without substantive change.

(b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revision program, the purpose of this code is to make the law encompassed by this code more accessible and understandable by:

(1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;

(2) employing a format and numbering system designed to facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future expansion of the law;

(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional, expired, executed, and other ineffective provisions; and

(4) restating the law in modern American English to the greatest extent possible.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 42.0441 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 42 / Section 42.0441
§ 42.0441. INSPECTION RESULTS FOR CERTAIN NONRESIDENTIAL CHILD-CARE FACILITIES.
Status: in_force

Immediately after completing a monitoring inspection of a licensed day-care center, licensed group day-care home, or registered family home under Section 42.044, the authorized representative of the department shall review the results of the monitoring inspection with a representative of the facility and give the facility an opportunity to respond to the inspection results.