Tex. Water Code § 51.872
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 51.872, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 51.872. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER DISTRICT BETWEEN MUNICIPALITIES' EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
Official statutory text
The board of directors of a district by order may transfer the district from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality if the board finds that:
(1) as of January 1, 1993, the municipality that has extraterritorial jurisdiction over the district excluded the district from the service area of the municipality's municipally owned water or sewer utility system;
(2) the other municipality has included or agreed to include the district within the service area of the municipality's municipally owned water or sewer utility system, and the municipality has adopted a water or sewer utility service plan agreeable to the board; and
(3) the municipally owned water or sewer utility system of the other municipality has agreed to provide the service to the district within one year.
(1) as of January 1, 1993, the municipality that has extraterritorial jurisdiction over the district excluded the district from the service area of the municipality's municipally owned water or sewer utility system;
(2) the other municipality has included or agreed to include the district within the service area of the municipality's municipally owned water or sewer utility system, and the municipality has adopted a water or sewer utility service plan agreeable to the board; and
(3) the municipally owned water or sewer utility system of the other municipality has agreed to provide the service to the district within one year.
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