A county may:

1. (1) acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, repair, operate, and maintain all or part of one or more solid waste disposal systems;
2. (2) contract with a person to collect, transport, handle, store, or dispose of solid waste for that person;
3. (3) contract with a person to purchase or sell, by installments for a term considered desirable, all or part of a solid waste disposal system;
4. (4) enter into an operating agreement with a person, for the terms and on the conditions considered desirable, for the operation of all or part of a solid waste disposal system by that person or by the county; and
5. (5) lease to or from a person, for the term and on the conditions considered desirable, all or part of a solid waste disposal system.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.