Sec. 552.017. WATER SYSTEMS IN HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A home-rule municipality may exercise the exclusive right to own, construct, and operate a water system for the use of the municipality and its residents. The municipality may regulate the system and may prescribe rates for the water furnished.
(b) The municipality may acquire by purchase, donation, or other means suitable land inside or outside the municipality for construction of the system, including any necessary rights-of-way.
(c) The municipality may take the necessary action to operate and maintain the system and to require water customers to pay charges imposed for the water furnished.
(d) The municipality may create, from revenue received from operating the water system, a separate fund dedicated solely to extending, operating, maintaining, repairing, and improving the water system. This revenue may be pledged for paying the principal of and providing an interest and sinking fund on bonds issued for these purposes, subject to applicable regulations in the municipal charter.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 304, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 402.017 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.76(a)(2), eff. April 1, 2009.
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