Texas Tax Code 351.106 – Allocation of Revenue: Populous Municipalities With Council-Manager Government
(a) A municipality that has a population of 1.18 million or more, is located predominantly in a county that has a total area of less than 1,000 square miles, and that has adopted a council-manager form of government shall use the amount of revenue from the tax that is derived from the application of the tax at a rate of more than four percent of the cost of a room as follows:
(1) no more than 55 percent to:
(A) constructing, improving, enlarging, equipping, and repairing the municipality’s convention center complex; or
(B) pledging payment of revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds issued under Subchapter A, Chapter 1504, Government Code, for the municipality’s convention center complex; and
(2) at least 45 percent for the purposes provided by § 351.101(a)(3).
(b) Revenue received by a municipality described by Subsection (a) from the application of the tax at a rate of four percent or less may be used as provided by § 351.101.
Terms Used In Texas Tax Code 351.106
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) A municipality to which this section applies:
(1) is entitled to receive in the same manner all funds and revenue that a municipality to which § 351.1015 applies may receive under that section; and
(2) may pledge the funds and revenue for the payment of obligations incurred for the construction of qualified projects authorized under that section.