Overview: Texas Ports and Navigation Districts
Author(s):
C.J. Kruse
Publication Date:
May 2016
Abstract:
This report gives an overview of the Texas ports and existing 24 navigation districts.
In Texas, navigation districts generally provide for the construction and improvement of waterways. Two different articles of the Texas Constitution authorize the creation of navigation districts to serve different purposes:
1. Section 52, Article III - authorizes counties, cities, and other political corporations or subdivisions to issue bonds and levy taxes toward improving rivers, bays, creeks, streams, and canals to prevent overflow, provide irrigation, and permit navigation.
2. Section 59 Article XVI - authorizes the creation of conservation and reclamation districts to conserve and develop natural resources, including the improvement, prservation, and conservation of inland and coastal water for navigation and controlling storm water and floodwater of rivers and streams in aid of navigation. Also, this section authorizes conservation and reclamation districts to issue bonds and levy taxes for those purposes.
Report Number:
PRC-2016-5
Electronic Link(s):
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