(a) The district is a conservation and reclamation district in Hidalgo County, Texas, created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, for all purposes of that section, including:(1) the reclamation and irrigation of the district's arid, semiarid, and other land that needs irrigation; and(2) the reclamation and drainage of the district's overflowed land and other land that needs drainage.(b) The district is a political subdivision of this state. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.05, eff. April 1, 2007.
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