Texas Government Code 1508.155 – Additional Security
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(a) The bonds may be additionally secured by:
(1) an encumbrance on any real property relating to a facility described by Section 1508.152(a) owned or to be acquired by the municipality; or
(2) an encumbrance on any personal property appurtenant to that real property.
(b) The governing body of the municipality may authorize the execution of a trust indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, or other form of encumbrance as evidence of the debt.
Terms Used In Texas Government Code 1508.155
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The municipality may also pledge to the payment of the bonds all or part of any grant, donation, revenue, or income received or to be received from the United States or any other public or private source.