Sec. 5004.102. POWERS REGARDING CANALS, PORTS, WATERWAYS, AND FACILITIES. The district may:

(1) promote, construct, maintain, operate, make practicable, aid, and encourage the construction, maintenance, and operation of navigable canals or waterways and all navigational systems or facilities auxiliary to navigable canals or waterways, using the natural bed and banks of the Cypress River and its tributaries and of Caddo Lake where practicable;

(2) acquire, improve, extend, take over, construct, maintain, repair, operate, develop, and regulate ports, levees, wharves, docks, locks, warehouses, grain elevators, dumping facilities, aids to navigation, or aids consistent with or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways within the district; and

(3) construct, extend, improve, repair, maintain, reconstruct, own, use, and operate any facility of any kind necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions granted by this chapter.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.04, eff. April 1, 2009.