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.
Structure Texas Statutes
Special District Local Laws Code
Subtitle A - Navigation Districts and Port Authorities
Chapter 5004 - Cypress Valley Navigation District
Subchapter C. Powers and Duties
Section 5004.101. General Powers and Duties
Section 5004.102. Powers Regarding Canals, Ports, Waterways, and Facilities
Section 5004.103. Bylaws and Rules
Section 5004.104. Gift or Purchase of Property; Eminent Domain
Section 5004.105. Surplus Property
Section 5004.106. General Authority to Make Contracts and Execute Instruments
Section 5004.107. Contracts With United States
Section 5004.108. Authority to Spend Money for Seeking Cooperation
Section 5004.110. Employment of Officers and Employees