Sec. 283.044. LIMITATION ON TAXING POWER BY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY; DISPOSITION OF DELINQUENT TAXES. (a) On or after the creation of the district, the county or a municipality located in the district may not levy taxes for hospital purposes.
(b) The county or a municipality located in the district that collects delinquent taxes owed to the county or municipality on levies for county and municipal hospital systems or for the payment of bonds issued for the systems shall pay the amount of the collected delinquent taxes to the district, and the district shall apply that money to the purposes for which the taxes were originally levied.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle D - Hospital Districts
Chapter 283 - Optional Hospital District Law of 1957
Subchapter C. General Powers and Duties
Section 283.041. Transfer of County and Municipal Hospital Property and Funds
Section 283.042. Assumption of Contract Obligations
Section 283.043. Assumption of Bonded Indebtedness; Cancellation of Unsold Municipal or County Bonds
Section 283.044. Limitation on Taxing Power by Governmental Entity; Disposition of Delinquent Taxes
Section 283.045. District Responsibility for Medical Aid and Hospital Care
Section 283.046. Management, Control, and Administration
Section 283.047. District Rules
Section 283.048. Purchasing and Accounting Methods and Procedures
Section 283.049. District Inspections
Section 283.050. Eminent Domain
Section 283.051. Gifts and Endowments
Section 283.052. Authority to Sue and Be Sued; Legal Representation