- (a) The authority may contract with a municipality located inside its boundaries for the purchase, lease, use, management, control, or operation of a water distribution plant or system owned by the municipality in accordance with the terms mutually agreed on by the governing bodies of the authority and the municipality.
- (b) The authority may acquire by a contract described by Subsection (a) rights in surface water or groundwater belonging to the municipality.
(c) The authority may use water rights acquired from a municipality under Subsection (b) only for:
- (1) a purpose for which the municipality would be authorized to use them; and
- (2) the purposes of the municipality's water distribution plant or system.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 914 (H.B. 3530), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2023.