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TX Health & Safety Code § 363.092 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter E. Planning Fund and Technical Assistance Fund|Section 363.092. Planning Fund Use; Financial Assistance to Local Governments and Planning Regions

Sec. 363.092.  PLANNING FUND USE;  FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND PLANNING REGIONS.  (a)  The executive director shall administer the financial assistance program and the planning fund under the commission's direction.(b)  The commission shall adopt rules for the use and distribution to public agencies and planning regions of money in the planning fund.(c)  The commission shall use the planning fund to provide financial assistance to:(1)  local governments and planning regions to develop regional and local solid waste management plans;(2)  public agencies and planning regions to prepare screening, feasibility, and implementation studies;  and(3)  local governments and planning regions for costs of developing and implementing approved household hazardous waste diversion programs, excluding costs of disposal.(d)  The commission shall use at least 90 percent of the money appropriated to it for the planning fund to provide financial assistance, and not more than 10 percent of the total funds appropriated to the commission for the planning fund may be used to administer the financial assistance program and the planning fund and to pay the expenses of the advisory council.(e)  The planning fund may not be used for construction or to prepare final design and working drawings, acquire land or an interest in land, or pay for recovered resources.(f)  The commission by rule shall allocate a specific percentage of money provided under Subsection (c)(1) to be used to develop plans for community household hazardous waste collection programs.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 238, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 303, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.105, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.093 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter E. Planning Fund and Technical Assistance Fund|Section 363.093. Application for Financial Assistance

Sec. 363.093.  APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.  (a)  An applicant for financial assistance from the planning fund must agree to comply with:(1)  the state solid waste management plan;(2)  the commission's municipal solid waste management rules;  and(3)  other commission requirements.(b)  The commission may not authorize release of funds under a financial assistance application until the applicant furnishes to the commission a resolution adopted by the governing body of each public agency or planning region that is a party to the application certifying that:(1)  the applicant will comply with the financial assistance program's provisions and commission requirements;(2)  the funds will be used only for the purposes for which they are provided;(3)  regional or local solid waste management plans or studies developed with the financial assistance will be adopted by the governing body as its policy;  and(4)  future municipal solid waste management activities will, to the extent reasonably feasible, conform to the regional or local solid waste management plan.(c)  Financial assistance provided by the commission to a public agency or planning region must be matched at least equally by funds provided by the recipient, except that this matching requirement does not apply if the recipient is a council of governments created under Chapter 391, Local Government Code, or a municipality or county.(d)  The priority given to applicants in receiving financial assistance must be determined by:(1)  the need to initiate or improve the solid waste management program in the applicant's jurisdiction; (2)  the needs of the state; (3)  the applicant's financial need;  and(4)  the degree to which the proposed program will result in improvements that meet the requirements of state, regional, and local solid waste management plans.(e)  The commission may approve an application for financial assistance if:(1)  the application is consistent with the rules adopted by the commission under Section 363.092(b);  and(2)  the commission finds that the applicant requires state financial assistance and that it is in the public interest to provide the financial assistance.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 737, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.106, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.094 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter E. Planning Fund and Technical Assistance Fund|Section 363.094. Municipal Solid Waste Resource Recovery Applied Research and Technical Assistance Fund

Sec. 363.094.  MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE RESOURCE RECOVERY APPLIED RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FUND.  (a)  The municipal solid waste resource recovery applied research and technical assistance fund is in the state treasury.(b)  The technical assistance fund is composed of legislative appropriations.(c)  The technical assistance fund shall be used to:(1)  accomplish applied research and development studies;  and(2)  provide technical assistance to public agencies to carry out investigations and to make studies relating to resource recovery and improved municipal solid waste management.(d)  The executive director shall administer the technical assistance fund under the commission's direction.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.107, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.095 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter E. Planning Fund and Technical Assistance Fund|Section 363.095. Use of Technical Assistance Fund

Sec. 363.095.  USE OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FUND.  (a)  Studies, applied research, investigations, and other purposes accomplished with and technical assistance provided through use of money in the technical assistance fund must comply with:(1)  the state solid waste management plan;(2)  the commission's municipal solid waste management rules;  and(3)  other commission policy requirements.(b)  Technical assistance, applied research, investigations, studies, and other purposes for which funds may be provided may include:(1)  an evaluation of the long-term statewide needs of public agencies in financing municipal solid waste systems and consideration of the nature and extent of financial support that the state should provide for those systems; (2)  an evaluation of state of the art waste reduction systems and waste-to-energy systems that include steam generation and electrical production; (3)  establishment and evaluation of a pilot source separation and recycling project; (4)  feasibility studies of appropriate technology that may be applicable to several local governments for the improvement of solid waste management systems; (5)  cost and economic comparisons of alternative solid waste management systems; (6)  an evaluation of available markets for energy and recovered materials; (7)  an evaluation of the availability of recovered materials and energy resources for new market opportunities;  and(8)  a citizen involvement program to educate citizens in solid waste management issues and the improvement of solid waste management practices.(c)  The commission may hire personnel to be paid from the technical assistance fund and may use the technical assistance fund for obtaining consultant services and for entering into interagency agreements with other state agencies, public agencies, or planning regions.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.108, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.111 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.111. Adoption of Rules by Public Agency

Sec. 363.111.  ADOPTION OF RULES BY PUBLIC AGENCY.  (a)  A governing body may adopt rules for regulating solid waste collection, handling, transportation, storage, processing, and disposal.(b)  The rules may not authorize any activity, method of operation, or procedure prohibited by Chapter 361 (Solid Waste Disposal Act) or by rules or regulations of the commission or other state or federal agencies.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.109, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.112 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.112. Prohibition of Processing or Disposal of Solid Waste in Certain Areas

Sec. 363.112.  PROHIBITION OF PROCESSING OR DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE IN CERTAIN AREAS.  (a)  To prohibit the processing or disposal of municipal or industrial solid waste in certain areas of a municipality or county, the governing body of the municipality or county must by ordinance or order specifically designate the area of the municipality or county, as appropriate, in which the disposal of municipal or industrial solid waste will not be prohibited.(b)  The ordinance or order must be published for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the municipality or county, as appropriate, before the date the proposed ordinance or order is adopted by the governing body.(c)  The governing body of a municipality or county may not prohibit the processing or disposal of municipal or industrial solid waste in an area of that municipality or county for which:(1)  an application for a permit or other authorization under Chapter 361 has been filed with and is pending before the commission;  or(2)  a permit or other authorization under Chapter 361 has been issued by the commission.(d)  The commission may not grant an application for a permit to process or dispose of municipal or industrial solid waste in an area in which the processing or disposal of municipal or industrial solid waste is prohibited by an ordinance or order authorized by Subsection (a), unless the governing body of the municipality or county violated Subsection (c) in passing the ordinance or order.  The commission by rule may establish procedures for determining whether an application is for the processing or disposal of municipal or industrial solid waste in an area for which that processing or disposal is prohibited by an ordinance or order.(e)  The powers specified by this section may not be exercised by the governing body of a municipality or county with respect to areas to which Section 361.090 applies.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.110, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 570, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.113 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.113. Establishment of Solid Waste Management Services

Sec. 363.113.  ESTABLISHMENT OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.  Each county with a population of more than 30,000 and each municipality shall review the provision of solid waste management services in its jurisdiction and shall assure that those services are provided to all persons in its jurisdiction by a public agency or private person.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.114 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.114. Resource Recovery Service; Fees

Sec. 363.114.  RESOURCE RECOVERY SERVICE;  FEES.  (a)  A public agency may offer a resource recovery service to persons in its jurisdictional boundaries and may charge fees for that service.(b)  To aid in enforcing collection of fees for a resource recovery service, a public agency, after notice and hearing, may suspend service provided by any utility owned or operated by the public agency to a person who is delinquent in payment of those fees.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.115 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.115. Tax Exempt Status of Certain Resource Recovery Systems

Sec. 363.115.  TAX EXEMPT STATUS OF CERTAIN RESOURCE RECOVERY SYSTEMS.  A resource recovery system acquired by a public agency to reduce municipal solid waste by mechanical means or incineration is exempt from property taxes of any municipality, county, school district, or other political subdivision of the state.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.116 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.116. Authority to Enter Contracts Concerning Solid Waste Management Services

Sec. 363.116.  AUTHORITY TO ENTER CONTRACTS CONCERNING SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.  (a)  A public agency may enter into contracts to enable it to furnish or receive solid waste management services on the terms considered appropriate by the public agency's governing body.(b)  A home-rule municipality's charter provision restricting the duration of a municipal contract does not apply to a municipal contract that relates to solid waste management services.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.118 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.118. Industrial Development Corporations

Sec. 363.118.  INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.  (a)  A public agency that enters into a contract under Section 363.116 may sponsor the creation of an industrial development corporation as provided by the Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12, Local Government Code).(b)  If the system is located in the public agency's boundaries, the corporation may issue its bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness to finance the costs of a solid waste management system, including a resource recovery system, contemplated under the contract.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.16, eff. April 1, 2009.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.119 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter F. Local Solid Waste Services and Regulation|Section 363.119. Funding Solid Waste Management Services

Sec. 363.119.  FUNDING SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.  (a)  A public agency may establish a solid waste management fund to make payments for solid waste management services covered by contracts entered into by the public agency.(b)  A public agency may agree to make sufficient provision in its annual budget to make payments under its contracts.(c)  Payments to be made by a public agency under a contract may also be made from revenues of the public agency's solid waste, water, sewer, electric, or gas system or any combination of utility systems.(d)  As a source of payment or as the sole source of payment, a public agency may use and pledge available revenues or resources for and to the payment of amounts due under contracts and may enter into covenants concerning those sources of payment to assure their availability if required.(e)  A public agency may establish, charge, and collect fees, rates, charges, rentals, and other amounts for services or facilities provided under or in connection with a contract.  Those fees, rates, charges, rentals, and other amounts may be charged to and collected from the residents of the public agency, if any, or from users or beneficiaries of the services or facilities and may include water charges, sewage charges, and solid waste disposal fees and charges, including solid waste collection or handling fees.  The public agency may use and pledge those fees, rates, charges, rentals, and other amounts to make payments required under a contract and may enter into a covenant to do so in amounts sufficient to make all or any part of the payments when due.(f)  A public agency that has taxing power, and that at the time of entering into a contract is using its general funds, including its tax revenues, to pay all or part of the costs of providing solid waste collection, transportation, and disposal services, may agree and pledge that the contract is an obligation against the taxing power of the public agency.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.131 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter G. Bonds|Section 363.131. Authority to Issue Bonds

Sec. 363.131.  AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS.  (a)  A public agency may issue bonds in the name of the public agency to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, and repair all or part of a solid waste management system, including a resource recovery system.(b)  Pending the issuance of definitive bonds, a public agency may issue negotiable interim bonds eligible for exchange or substitution on issuance of definitive bonds.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.132 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter G. Bonds|Section 363.132. Terms; Form

Sec. 363.132.  TERMS;  FORM.  (a)  A public agency may issue its bonds in various series or issues.(b)  Bonds may mature serially or otherwise not more than 50 years after the date of issuance and shall bear interest at a rate permitted by state law.(c)  A public agency's bonds and interest coupons, if any, are investment securities under Chapter 8, Business & Commerce Code, and may be:(1)  issued registrable as to principal or as to principal and interest;  and(2)  made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the public agency, or may contain a mandatory redemption provision.(d)  A public agency's bonds may be issued in the form, denominations, and manner, and under the terms, and shall be signed and executed, as provided by the governing body in the resolution or order authorizing the bonds.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.133 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter G. Bonds|Section 363.133. Bond Provisions

Sec. 363.133.  BOND PROVISIONS.  (a)  In the orders or resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds, including refunding bonds, the governing body may:(1)  provide for the flow of funds and the establishment and maintenance of the interest and sinking fund, the reserve fund, and other funds;  and(2)  make additional covenants with respect to the bonds, the pledged revenues, and the operation and maintenance of the physical property of the solid waste management system, the revenue of which is pledged.(b)  In the orders or resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds, the governing body may:(1)  prohibit the further issuance of bonds or other obligations payable from the pledged revenue or may reserve the right to issue additional bonds to be secured by a pledge of and payable from the revenue on a parity with or subordinate to the lien and pledge in support of the bonds being issued;  and(2)  include other provisions as the governing body may determine.(c)  The governing body may adopt and have executed any other proceedings or instruments necessary and convenient in the issuance of bonds.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.134 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter G. Bonds|Section 363.134. Approval and Registration

Sec. 363.134.  APPROVAL AND REGISTRATION.  (a)  A public agency shall submit bonds issued by the public agency and records relating to their issuance to the attorney general for examination as to their validity.  If the bonds are secured by a pledge of proceeds from a contract, the public agency shall submit to the attorney general for examination a copy of the contract and a copy of the records relating to the contract.(b)  If the attorney general finds that the bonds have been authorized and a contract entered into in accordance with law, the attorney general shall approve the bonds, and the comptroller shall register the bonds.(c)  Following approval and registration, the bonds are incontestable and are binding obligations according to their terms.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 363.135 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 5 - Sanitation and Environmental Quality|Subtitle B - Solid Waste, Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Litter, and Water|Chapter 363 - Municipal Solid Waste|Subchapter G. Bonds|Section 363.135. Bond Payment and Security

Sec. 363.135.  BOND PAYMENT AND SECURITY.  A public agency may pay the principal of and interest on bonds:(1)  from the levy and collection of taxes on all taxable property in the public agency's boundaries if the public agency is authorized by law to levy and collect property taxes; (2)  by pledging all or part of the designated revenues from the ownership or operation of physical property of a solid waste management system, including a resource recovery system, or from a contract entered into by a public agency under this chapter;  or(3)  from other income of the public agency.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|