Sec. 460.606. TAX INCREMENT ACCOUNT; USE OF TAXES. (a) An authority that enters into an agreement with a municipality to provide services to a public transportation financing area must establish a tax increment account and maintain the account as a fiduciary of the municipality.
(b) The taxes to be deposited into the tax increment account may be disbursed from the account only to:
(1) compensate the authority for maintenance and operating expenses of providing services to the public transportation financing area, including compensation for expansion, improvement, rehabilitation, or enhancement amounts owed for previous years' maintenance and operating expenses for the public transportation financing area;
(2) compensate the authority for any capital cost incurred for the benefit of the public transportation financing area;
(3) notwithstanding Section 321.506, Tax Code, satisfy claims of holders of tax increment bonds, notes, or other obligations issued or incurred for projects or services that directly or indirectly benefit the public transportation financing area through the expansion, improvement, rehabilitation, or enhancement of transportation service by the authority under the service plan; and
(4) pay any capital recovery fee required by the authority.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 921 (S.B. 1422), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2011.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle K - Mass Transportation
Chapter 460 - Coordinated County Transportation Authorities
Subchapter I. Participation in Authority Through Tax Increment Payments
Section 460.602. Participation in Service Plan; Agreement With Municipality
Section 460.603. Designation of Public Transportation Financing Area
Section 460.605. Designation of Tax Increment
Section 460.606. Tax Increment Account; Use of Taxes
Section 460.607. Agreement With Comptroller
Section 460.608. Accounting of Maintenance and Operating Expenses
Section 460.609. Capital Recovery Fee
Section 460.610. Use of Surplus Tax Increment Payment Amounts
Section 460.611. Termination of Public Transportation Financing Area