Texas Water Code 55.620 – General Powers and Regulations
(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
(5) be held liable for the private contract.
Terms Used In Texas Water Code 55.620
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(c) The two-year statute of limitation and the provisions of this section may be pleaded as a bar to an action to recover water rents or other assessments which accrued on land in the district before the district was created.