Texas Water Code 51.872 – Authority to Transfer District Between Municipalities’ Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Terms Used In Texas Water Code 51.872
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
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.