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Texas ports and navigation districts : overview.

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  • Alternative Title:
    Overview : Texas ports and navigation districts.
  • Creators:
    Kruse, Jim ORCID ICON IMG
  • Corporate Contributors:
    Texas A&M Transportation Institute
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    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Texas;United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  • Abstract:
    The first Navigation District was established in 1909, and there are now 24 Navigation Districts

    statewide.1

    Navigation districts generally provide for the construction and improvement of waterways in

    Texas for the purpose of navigation. The creation of navigation districts is authorized in two

    different articles of the Texas Constitution to serve different purposes. Section 52, Article III,

    authorizes counties, cities, and other political corporations or subdivisions to issue bonds and

    levy taxes for the purposes of improving rivers, bays, creeks, streams, and canals to prevent

    overflow, to provide irrigation, and to permit navigation. Section 59, Article XVI, authorizes the

    creation of conservation and reclamation districts for the purpose of conserving and developing

    natural resources, including the improvement, preservation, and conservation of inland and

    coastal water for navigation and controlling storm water and floodwater of rivers and streams in

    aid of navigation. This section authorizes conservation and reclamation districts to issue bonds

    and levy taxes for those purposes. Generally, however, navigation districts are structured,

    governed, and financed in the same manner.

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