To accomplish the sole purpose of reclaiming and draining the district's overflowed land and other land needing drainage, the district has all of the rights, powers, privileges, and duties provided by general law applicable to a water control and improvement district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including Chapters 49 and 51, Water Code.
Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 9088.0201
WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT POWERS
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 914 (H.B. 3530), Sec. 1.04, eff
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