Tex. Health and Safety Code § 283.044
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 283.044, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 283.044. LIMITATION ON TAXING POWER BY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY; DISPOSITION OF DELINQUENT TAXES.
Official statutory text
(a) On or after the creation of the district, the county or a municipality located in the district may not levy taxes for hospital purposes.
(b) The county or a municipality located in the district that collects delinquent taxes owed to the county or municipality on levies for county and municipal hospital systems or for the payment of bonds issued for the systems shall pay the amount of the collected delinquent taxes to the district, and the district shall apply that money to the purposes for which the taxes were originally levied.
(b) The county or a municipality located in the district that collects delinquent taxes owed to the county or municipality on levies for county and municipal hospital systems or for the payment of bonds issued for the systems shall pay the amount of the collected delinquent taxes to the district, and the district shall apply that money to the purposes for which the taxes were originally levied.
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