(a) A municipality by resolution may establish an authority. The resolution must include a legal description of the base property. On adoption of the resolution, the authority is established as a special district and political subdivision of this state, with a boundary coterminous with the base property described in the resolution.
(b) When establishing an authority, the municipality may designate the authority in the municipality’s resolution to be the successor in interest to a nonprofit corporation organized under the Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12). On adoption of the resolution, the corporation is dissolved and the authority succeeds to all rights and liabilities of that corporation.

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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 379B.002

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005