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Senate Bill 1855 |
Senate Author: Deuell |
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Effective: 6-17-05 |
House Sponsor: Laubenberg |
Senate Bill 1855 amends the Special District Local Laws Code to create the Rockwall County Municipal Utility Districts Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9, subject in each case to dissolution if not confirmed by voters before September 1, 2007. It grants the districts powers of eminent domain and provides that a district may exercise such powers outside its boundaries for constructing, acquiring, operating, repairing, or maintaining water supply lines or sanitary sewer lines. The bill authorizes road projects, if consent is granted by the county and by each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located. Bonds or obligations to finance such projects, if secured wholly or partly by ad valorem taxation, require two-thirds approval by district voters, and may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the real property in the district. The bill specifies that Water Code provisions relating to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality supervision and bond approval do not apply to road projects of the districts.