84R17482 GRM-F
By: Creighton S.B. No. 2061
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to powers and duties of the Porter Special Utility
District; providing authority to establish defined areas or
designated property, to issue bonds, and to impose taxes for the
benefit of defined areas or designated property; granting a limited
power of eminent domain in the defined areas or designated
property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by adding Chapter 7220 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 7220. PORTER SPECIAL UTILITY DISTRICT
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 7220.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
means the Porter Special Utility District.
Sec. 7220.002. NATURE AND PURPOSE OF DISTRICT. (a) The
district is a special utility district created under Section 59,
Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
(b) The district is created to accomplish the purposes of:
(1) a special utility district as provided by general
law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and
(2) in defined areas or designated property of the
district established in accordance with Subchapter B, a municipal
utility district as provided by general law and Section 59, Article
XVI, Texas Constitution.
SUBCHAPTER B. POWERS AND DUTIES
Sec. 7220.051. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. The district has
the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for
which the district is created.
Sec. 7220.052. SPECIAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Except as provided by this chapter, the district has all of the
powers and duties provided by general law of this state, including
Chapters 49 and 65, Water Code, applicable to special utility
districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution.
Sec. 7220.053. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH DEFINED AREAS OR
DESIGNATED PROPERTY. (a) The district may establish and maintain
defined areas or designated property in accordance with Subchapter
J, Chapter 54, Water Code, including the power to impose taxes and
issue bonds in the defined areas or designated property.
(b) Section 65.235, Water Code, does not apply to the
district.
Sec. 7220.054. ANNEXATION OF LAND TO DEFINED AREAS OR
DESIGNATED PROPERTY. The district may annex land to an existing
defined area or designated property in the same manner as land
annexed to a district as provided by Sections 49.301 and 49.302,
Water Code. Land annexed to a defined area or designated property
must also be included in the district but is not required to be
contiguous to the defined area or designated property into which it
is annexed.
Sec. 7220.055. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES
IN DEFINED AREA OR DESIGNATED PROPERTY. In a defined area or
designated property created by the district, the district has the
powers and duties provided by the general law of this state,
including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal
utility districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution.
SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
Government Code.
(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
representatives within the required time.
(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
and accomplished.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.