Sections
Subchapter A General Provisions 60.001 – 60.005
Subchapter B Retirement, Disability, and Death Compensation Fund 60.011 – 60.014
Subchapter B-1 Employee Catastrophic Assistance Program 60.021 – 60.024
Subchapter C Additional Powers and Duties of Certain Districts 60.031 – 60.044
Subchapter D Regulatory Powers 60.071 – 60.079
Subchapter E Powers of Districts for Improvement of Port Facilities 60.101 – 60.124
Subchapter F Contracts With the United States 60.151 – 60.153
Subchapter G Powers of District to Provide Improvements Without Taxation 60.171 – 60.181
Subchapter H Promotion and Development Fund in Certain Districts 60.201 – 60.205
Subchapter I Revenue Bonds 60.221
Subchapter J Conversion of Districts 60.241 – 60.249
Subchapter K Depository 60.271 – 60.273
Subchapter L Refunding Bonds 60.301
Subchapter M Tax Bonds, Revenue Bonds, and Combination Tax and Revenue Bonds 60.331 – 60.349
Subchapter N Competitive Bidding Requirements 60.401 – 60.414
Subchapter O Purchase Contracts 60.451 – 60.464
Subchapter Q Miscellaneous Provisions 60.501 – 60.502
Subchapter R Charitable Contributions 60.551 – 60.564

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Terms Used In Texas Water Code Chapter 60 - Navigation Districts--General Provisions

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Succeeding: means immediately following. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.