Texas Water Code 49.279 – Prevailing Wage Rates
Terms Used In Texas Water Code 49.279
- District: means any district or authority created by authority of either Sections Texas Water Code 49.001
- 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.
In addition to the alternative procedures provided by § 2258.022, Government Code:
(1) a district located wholly or partially within one or more municipalities or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of one or more municipalities may determine its prevailing wage rate for public works by adopting the prevailing wage rate of:
(A) one of the municipalities; or
(B) the county in which the district is located or, if the county in which the district is located has not adopted a wage rate, the prevailing wage rate of a county adjacent to the county in which the district is located; and
(2) a district not located wholly or partially within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may determine the district’s prevailing wage rate by adopting the prevailing wage rate of the county in which the district is located or, if the county in which the district is located has not adopted a wage rate, the wage rate of a county adjacent to the county in which the district is located.