Texas Parks and Wildlife Code

§ 22.254 — POWERS OF CITY OF DALLAS

PW § 22.254Title 3. PARKS · Ch. 22. STATE PARKS · Art. S. TRINITY RIVER STATE PARK

Statute text

(a)Nothing in this Act shall preclude or prohibit the city of Dallas from initiating, developing, completing, extending, or maintaining any project, as described in Subsection (b) of this section, whether the project may be located within, partially within, or adjacent to the boundaries of Trinity River State Park.

(b)For purposes of this section, the city of Dallas by ordinance or resolution of the governing body may approve and authorize any or all of the following:

(1)the development of a lake to be located within the flood plain of the Trinity River within the city of Dallas;

(2)the extension of Trinity River flood controls which shall include but not be limited to the construction of drainage channels, swales, levees, and associated flood control appurtenances in the Trinity River flood plain which may be constructed and maintained within the boundaries of Trinity River State Park;

(3)the extension of Simpson Stuart Road at the point where it may cross the flood plain of the Trinity River; and

(4)the construction of swales in or adjacent to the natural channel of the Trinity River as necessary to provide offset capacity for full utilization of the McCommas Bluff Reclamation landfill.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 5356, ch. 983, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.