Tex. Water Code § 36.157
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 36.157, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 36.157. REPAYMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL EXPENSES.
Official statutory text
(a) A district, or the county or counties where the district is to be located, may pay all costs and expenses necessarily incurred in the creation and organization of a district, including legal fees and other incidental expenses, and may reimburse any person, including a county, for money advanced for these purposes.
(b) Payments may be made from money obtained from the sale of bonds first issued by the district or out of maintenance taxes or other revenues of the district.
(b) Payments may be made from money obtained from the sale of bonds first issued by the district or out of maintenance taxes or other revenues of the district.
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