CHAPTER 380. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 12. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
SUBTITLE A. MUNICIPAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 380. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 380.001. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. (a) The governing
body of a municipality may establish and provide for the
administration of one or more programs, including programs for
making loans and grants of public money and providing personnel
and services of the municipality, to promote state or local
economic development and to stimulate business and commercial
activity in the municipality. For purposes of this subsection, a
municipality includes an area that:
(1) has been annexed by the municipality for limited purposes;
or
(2) is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.
(b) The governing body may:
(1) administer a program by the use of municipal personnel;
(2) contract with the federal government, the state, a political
subdivision of the state, a nonprofit organization, or any other
entity for the administration of a program; and
(3) accept contributions, gifts, or other resources to develop
and administer a program.
(c) Any city along the Texas-Mexico border with a population of
more than 500,000 may establish not-for-profit corporations and
cooperative associations for the purpose of creating and
developing an intermodal transportation hub to stimulate economic
development. Such intermodal hub may also function as an
international intermodal transportation center and may be
colocated with or near local, state, or federal facilities and
facilities of Mexico in order to fulfill its purpose.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 555, Sec. 1, eff. June 14,
1989. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 593, Sec. 1, eff.
Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch.
57, Sec. 1, eff. May 17, 2005.
Sec. 380.002. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANTS BY CERTAIN
MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A home-rule municipality with a population
of more than 100,000 may create programs for the grant of public
money to any organization exempt from taxation under Section
501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as an organization
described in Section 501(c)(3) of that code for the public
purposes of development and diversification of the economy of the
state, elimination of unemployment or underemployment in the
state, and development or expansion of commerce in the state. The
grants must be in furtherance of those public purposes and shall
be used by the recipient as determined by the recipient's
governing board for programs found by the municipality to be in
furtherance of this section and under conditions prescribed by
the municipality.
(b) A home-rule municipality may, under a contract with a
development corporation created by the municipality under the
Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12), grant public
money to the corporation. The development corporation shall use
the grant money for the development and diversification of the
economy of the state, elimination of unemployment or
underemployment in the state, and development and expansion of
commerce in the state.
(c) The funds granted by the municipality under this section
shall be derived from any source lawfully available to the
municipality under its charter or other law, other than from the
proceeds of bonds or other obligations of the municipality
payable from ad valorem taxes.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 13.06(a), eff. Aug.
26, 1991. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 4, Sec.
25.02, eff. Aug. 22, 1991; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 56, Sec. 1,
eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch.
885, Sec. 3.26, eff. April 1, 2009.
Sec. 380.003. APPLICATION FOR MATCHING FUNDS FROM FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT. A municipality may, as an agency of the state,
provide matching funds for a federal program that requires local
matching funds from a state agency to the extent state agencies
that are eligible decline to participate or do not fully
participate in the program.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 1051, Sec. 1, eff. June 17,
1995.