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Texas Special District Local Laws Code - SDLL § 8513.0206. Ordinances

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The board may, by a majority and to the extent necessary to exercise the authority's powers and rights, adopt an ordinance:

(1) not adequately provided by Chapter 49 or 51, Water Code;

(2) germane and appropriate to the accomplishment and purposes of this chapter;  and

(3) consistent with a specific power conferred on a county, municipality, water improvement district, water control and improvement district, drainage district, navigation district, canal corporation, channel and dock corporation, deep water corporation, railway corporation, terminal railway corporation, telegraph and telephone corporation, or other similar entity.

(b) The board is not required to provide notice before adopting an ordinance, except as otherwise required for a regular or special board meeting.

(c) The board:

(1) shall file an adopted ordinance in the authority's official records;  and

(2) may, if the board considers it necessary and proper:

(A) file certified copies of the ordinance in the office of the county clerk in each county in the authority where the ordinance applies;  or

(B) publish the ordinance at least once per week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each county where the ordinance applies.

(d) An adopted ordinance takes effect after the filing requirements of Subsection (c) are met.

(e) After an ordinance takes effect, a county clerk with whom a certified copy of the ordinance is filed under Subsection (c)(2)(A) shall record the certified copy.  The county clerk shall charge the same fee for recording the certified copy as for recording a deed of conveyance.

(f) An ordinance granting a power or mode of procedure adopted under this section does not limit the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter.

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