Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 552.103 - Rights of Water Corporation Providing Service to Municipality; Eminent Domain(a) A water corporation in a municipality may sell and furnish water required by a municipality for a public or private building or for any other purpose.(b) A water corporation may lay water system pipes, mains, or conductors through a street, alley, lane, or square of a municipality if the governing body of the municipality consents, subject to any regulation by the governing body.(c) If necessary to preserve the public health, a water corporation incorporated under state law to construct waterworks or to furnish water supply to a municipality may exercise the power of eminent domain to condemn private property necessary to construct a supply reservoir or standpipe for water work.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 552.103
Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 402.103 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885, Sec. 3.76(a)(2), eff. 4/1/2009.Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/1997.