Texas Water Code

§ 55.620 — GENERAL POWERS AND REGULATIONS

WA § 55.620Title 4. GENERAL LAW DISTRICTS · Ch. 55. WATER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS · Art. M. AD VALOREM TAXATION

Statute text

(a)No district may become a party to, purchase, hold under, assign, seek to enforce, or receive benefits from a contract between a landowner and a private canal company which was entered into before the district was created. Rights and privileges owned or possessed by the district are those arising or inherent in the district under this chapter.

(b)The district may not:

(1)acquire or enforce any lien against the land which was fixed by a contract entered into before the district was created;

(2)prosecute or have prosecuted any suit to recover water taxes or assessments which accrued before the district was created;

(3)foreclose any lien on land for unpaid water taxes or assessments which accrued before the district was created;

(4)avail itself of any rights under a private contract relating to the land which contract was entered into before the district was created; and

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Legislative history

Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 482, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.