H.B. No. 2734

	AN ACT
	relating to the creation of the Williamson-Liberty Hill Municipal
	Utility District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
	bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subtitle F, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
	Code, is amended by adding Chapter 8199 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 8199.  WILLIAMSON-LIBERTY HILL MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
	SUBCHAPTER A.  GENERAL PROVISIONS
	Sec. 8199.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1)  "Board" means the district's board of directors.
	(2)  "Director" means a board member.
	(3)  "District" means the Williamson-Liberty Hill
	Municipal Utility District.
	Sec. 8199.002.  NATURE OF DISTRICT. The district is a
	municipal utility district created under and essential to
	accomplish the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
	Constitution.
	Sec. 8199.003.  CONFIRMATION ELECTION REQUIRED. (a)  The
	board shall hold an election to confirm the creation of the district
	as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.
	(b)  If the creation of the district is not confirmed at a
	confirmation election before September 1, 2011:
	(1)  the district is dissolved September 1, 2011,
	except that the district shall:
	(A)  pay any debts incurred;
	(B)  transfer to Williamson County any assets that
	remain after the payment of debts; and
	(C)  maintain the organization of the district
	until all debts are paid and remaining assets are transferred; and
	(2)  this chapter expires September 1, 2014.
	Sec. 8199.004.  FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE. All
	land and other property in the district will benefit from the
	improvements and services to be provided by the district.
	Sec. 8199.005.  INITIAL DISTRICT TERRITORY. (a) The
	district is initially composed of the territory described by
	Section 2 of the Act creating this chapter.
	(b)  The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of
	the Act creating this chapter form a closure. A mistake made in the
	field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process
	does not affect the district's:
	(1)  organization, existence, or validity;
	(2)  right to issue any type of bond for a purpose for
	which the district is created or to pay the principal of and
	interest on the bond;
	(3)  right to impose an assessment or tax; or
	(4)  legality or operation.
	[Sections 8199.006-8199.050 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER B. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
	Sec. 8199.051.  GOVERNING BODY; TERMS. (a) The district is
	governed by a board of five elected directors.
	(b)  Directors serve staggered four-year terms.
	Sec. 8199.052.  INITIAL DIRECTORS. (a) The initial board
	consists of:
	(1)  Brad Greenblum;
	(2)  Patrick Shelton;
	(3)  Mark Sprague;
	(4)  Keith Husbands; and
	(5)  Robert Gelernter.
	(b)  Unless the initial board agrees otherwise, the initial
	directors shall draw lots to determine which two shall serve until
	the first regularly scheduled election of directors and which three
	shall serve until the second regularly scheduled election of
	directors.
	(c)  This section expires September 1, 2014.
	[Sections 8199.053-8199.100 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES
	Sec. 8199.101.  GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. The district has
	the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for
	which the district is created.
	Sec. 8199.102.  MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND
	DUTIES. The district has the powers and duties provided by the
	general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code,
	applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59,
	Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
	Sec. 8199.103.  REGIONAL WASTE DISPOSAL POWERS AND DUTIES.
	The district has the powers and duties applicable to a district
	under Chapter 30, Water Code.
	Sec. 8199.104.  COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT
	RESOLUTION. The district shall comply with all applicable
	requirements of any resolution, adopted by the governing body of a
	municipality under Section 54.016, Water Code, that consents to the
	creation of the district or to the inclusion of land in the
	district.
	Sec. 8199.105.  WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY DESIGN
	APPROVAL.  The district must obtain the approval of the Brazos River
	Authority for the design of any district wastewater treatment
	facility.
	Sec. 8199.106.  WASTEWATER SERVICE PROVIDERS.  Only the
	Brazos River Authority or a provider approved by the Brazos River
	Authority may provide wastewater service in the district.
	Sec. 8199.107.  COMPLIANCE WITH FEBRUARY 2005 AGREEMENT.
	The district shall comply with the terms of the "Agreement
	Regarding Sewer Services Areas and Customers" among the Lower
	Colorado River Authority, the Brazos River Authority, the City of
	Georgetown, the City of Liberty Hill, and the Chisholm Trail
	Special Utility District dated February 1, 2005.
	Sec. 8199.108.  STREET REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.  (a)  After
	July 1, 2017, the district, at the district's expense, shall repair
	and maintain any streets in the district.
	(b)  A district's repair and maintenance of streets under
	this section must meet all applicable construction standards and
	regulations of the City of Liberty Hill and Williamson County.
	[Sections 8199.109-8199.150 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER D. GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
	Sec. 8199.151.  ELECTIONS REGARDING TAXES OR BONDS. (a) The
	district may issue, without an election, bonds and other
	obligations secured by revenue or contract payments from a source
	other than ad valorem taxation.
	(b)  The district must hold an election in the manner
	provided by Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, to obtain voter approval
	before the district may impose an ad valorem tax or issue bonds
	payable from ad valorem taxes.
	(c)  An ad valorem tax rate imposed by the district may not
	exceed the rate approved at the election.
	Sec. 8199.152.  OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX. (a) If
	authorized at an election held under Section 8199.151, the district
	may impose an operation and maintenance tax on taxable property in
	the district as provided by Chapter 49.107, Water Code.
	(b)  The board shall determine the tax rate. The rate may not
	exceed the rate approved at the election.
	[Sections 8199.153-8199.200 reserved for expansion]
	SUBCHAPTER E. BONDS
	Sec.  8199.201.  AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER
	OBLIGATIONS.  The district may issue bonds or other obligations
	payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, impact fees,
	revenue, grants, or other district money, or any combination of
	those sources, to pay for any authorized district purpose.
	Sec. 8199.202.  TAXES FOR BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS. At
	the time bonds or other obligations payable wholly or partly from ad
	valorem taxes are issued:
	(1)  the board shall impose a continuing direct annual
	ad valorem tax, at a rate not to exceed the rate approved at an
	election held under Section 8199.151, for each year that all or part
	of the bonds are outstanding; and
	(2)  the district annually shall impose an ad valorem
	tax on all taxable property in the district in an amount sufficient
	to:
	(A)  pay the interest on the bonds or other
	obligations as the interest becomes due;
	(B)  create a sinking fund for the payment of the
	principal of the bonds or other obligations when due or the
	redemption price at any earlier required redemption date; and
	(C)  pay the expenses of imposing the taxes.
	SECTION 2.  The Williamson-Liberty Hill Municipal Utility
	District initially includes all the territory contained in the
	following area:
	DESCRIPTION OF 228.227 ACRES OF LAND OUT OF THE NOAH SMITHWICK
	SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO. 590 AND W.H. MONROE SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO. 453,
	SITUATED IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS, BEING A PORTION OF THAT
	CERTAIN 316 ACRE TRACT DESCRIBED IN A DEED TO EDWIN C. ROSENBUSCH,
	ET UX, OF RECORD IN VOLUME 427, PAGE 535 OF THE DEED RECORDS OF
	WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS; AND ALSO BEING A PORTION OF THAT CERTAIN
	10.98 ACRE TRACT DESCRIBED IN A DEED TO VINCENT J. STAGLIANO, OF
	RECORD IN DOCUMENT NO. 2005055873 OF THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS OF
	WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS; SAID 228.227 ACRES BEING MORE
	PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS AS FOLLOWS:
	COMMENCING, for reference, at a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap found in
	the southwesterly right-of-way line of State Highway No. 29
	(100-foot right-of-way), for the easterly corner of Lot 1 of the
	Amended R. McMillian Subdivision, of record in Cabinet K, Slides
	67-68, of the Plat Records of Williamson County, and the northerly
	corner of said 10.98 acre tract;
	THENCE, along the southwesterly line of said State Highway No. 29
	with the northeasterly line of said 10.98 acre tract, the following
	two (2) courses and distances:
	1)  along a curve to the right having a radius of 2814.79 feet, a
	central angle of 6°49'21", an arc distance of 335.17 feet and a chord
	which bears S62°12'06"E, a distance of 334.97 feet, to a 1/2 inch
	iron rod with cap found for the end of said curve at or near State
	Highway No. 29 centerline Station 527+04.3, 50' LT.;
	2)  S58°44'38"E, a distance of 30.41 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap set for the POINT OF BEGINNING and an exterior ell corner
	hereof;
	THENCE, S58°44'38"E, continuing along the southwesterly line of
	said State Highway No. 29, being the northwesterly line of said
	10.98 acre tract, for a portion of the northeasterly line hereof, a
	distance of 180.00 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap set for an
	exterior ell corner hereof;
	THENCE, leaving the southwesterly line of said State Highway No.
	29, over and across said 10.98 acre and said 316 acre tracts along a
	portion of the northeasterly line hereof, the following five (5)
	courses and distances:
	1)  S31°17'49"W, a distance of 100.35 feet, to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap set for an exterior ell corner hereof;
	2)  N58°42'11"W, a distance of 50.00 feet to 1/2-inch iron rod with
	cap set for an interior ell corner hereof;
	3)  S31°17'49"W, at a distance of 413.09 feet crossing the easterly
	line of said 316 acre tract, leaving said 10.98 acre tract, a total
	distance of 490.00 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap set for an
	interior ell corner hereof;
	4)  S58°42'11"E, at a distance of 68.19 feet crossing the westerly
	line of said 10.98 acre tract, leaving said 316 acre tract, a total
	distance of 489.99 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap set in the
	northwesterly line of that certain 10.00 acre tract described in a
	Contract of Sale and Purchase between the Veterans Land Board of
	Texas and William D. Jenkins, of record in Volume 755, Page 855, of
	said Deed Records and the southeasterly line of said 10.98 acre
	tract for an exterior ell corner hereof;
	5)  S31°16'19"W, along the northeasterly line of said 10.00 acre
	tract and the southeasterly line of said 10.98 acre tract, a
	distance of 215.92 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod found at the base of a
	cedar fence post in the remains of a wire fence adjacent to the
	presently fenced and occupied northeasterly line of said 316 acre
	tract, for the monumented southerly corner of said 10.98 acre tract
	and said 10.00 acre tract, for an exterior ell corner hereof;
	THENCE, along the southeasterly line of said 10.00 acre tract, for a
	portion of the northeasterly line hereof, the following three (3)
	courses and distances:
	1)  S55°45' 57"E, a distance of 87.60 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said 10.00 acre tract and hereof;
	2)  S50°38'25"E, a distance of 154.10 feet to a 60d nail found in
	fence post for an angle point of said 10.00 acre tract and hereof;
	3)  S17°28'18"E, at 337.71 feet passing a l/2-inch iron rod found
	for the southerly corner of said 10.00 acre tract and continuing
	along the southwesterly line of that certain 10.97 acre tract
	described in a deed to Vincent J. Stagliano, of record in Document
	No. 2006004521 of said Official Public Records, a total distance of
	373.34 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod found for the northeasterly
	corner of that certain 136.97 acre tract described in a deed to Z.
	M. Bonnet, of record in Volume 611, Page 672 of said Deed Records,
	the occupied southeasterly corner of said 316 acre tract and the
	southeasterly corner hereof;
	THENCE, along the northerly line of said 136.97 acre tract as found,
	fenced and monumented on the ground, being the occupied southerly
	line of said 316 acre tract, for a portion of the southerly line
	hereof, the following three (3) courses and distances:
	1)  S68°22'05"W, a distance of 557.93 feet to a 1/2 inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said 136.97 acre tract and hereof;
	2)  S70°27'30"W, a distance of 400.65 feet to a 1/2 inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said 136.97 acre tract and hereof;
	3)  S69°53'20"W, a distance of 1672.24 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the northwesterly corner of said 136.97 acre tract at an
	offset in the presently occupied southerly line of said 316 acre
	tract for an angle point hereof;
	THENCE, S20°01'45"E, along the westerly line of said 136.97 acre
	tract, a distance of 13.44 feet to a 1/2 inch iron rod found for the
	monumented northeasterly corner of said of that certain tract
	described as two hundred (200) acres in a deed to F.F. Davis, et ux,
	of record in Volume 329, Page 336 of said Deed Records, being an
	angle point in the southerly line of said 316 acre tract, and the
	southerly line hereof;
	THENCE, S69°21'37"W, along the monumented north line of said two
	hundred acres, for a portion of the southerly line hereof, at a
	distance of 1005.26 feet passing a 1/2 inch iron rod with cap found
	for the northeasterly corner of that certain tract described as
	3.16 acre in a deed to Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc., of
	record in Document No. 200640305, said Official Public Records,
	leaving the remainder of said two hundred acre tract and continuing
	along the fenced and monumented northerly line of said 3.16 acre
	tract, a total distance of 1468.55 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with
	cap set for the southwesterly corner hereof;
	THENCE, leaving the northerly line of said 3.16 acre tract, over and
	across said 316 acre tract, the following six (6) courses and
	distances:
	1)  Nll°17'24"W, a distance of 929.10 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for an angle point hereof;
	2)  S67°33'15"W, a distance of 1456.16 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap found in the fenced and occupied easterly line of County
	Road 266, an unspecified width right-of-way, for an angle point
	hereof;
	3)  N08°44'30"W, along the easterly line of said county road, a
	distance of 687.16 feet to 1/2-inch iron rod with cap set for an
	angle point hereof;
	4)  N12°38'37"W, along the easterly line of said county road, a
	distance of 106.61 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap found for an
	angle point hereof;
	5)  N71°42'29"E, leaving said county road, a distance of 808.72 feet
	to a l/2-inch iron rod with cap found for an angle point hereof;
	6) N20°46'09"W, at a distance of 858.17 feet passing a 1/2-inch iron
	rod found, a total distance of 860.11 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap set in the southerly line of Twenty-Nine Ranch, a
	subdivision of record in Cabinet K, Slides 115-116 of said Plat
	Records for the northwesterly corner hereof;
	THENCE, along the southerly line of said Twenty-Nine Ranch
	subdivision, and the southerly line of Poldrack Estates, a
	subdivision of record in Cabinet R, Slide 106 of said Plat Records,
	being the occupied northerly line of said 316 acre tract as found
	fenced on the ground, for the northwesterly line hereof, the
	following eight (8) courses and distances:
	1)  N69°14'51"E, along the southerly line of said Twenty-Nine
	Ranch, a distance of 715.53 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod found for
	the common southeasterly corner of Lot 15, said Twenty-Nine Ranch
	and Lot 5A, said Poldrack Estates, for an angle point hereof;
	2)  N69°39'50"E, along the southerly line of said Poldrack Estates,
	a distance of 846.33 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with cap set at the
	common southeasterly corner of Lot 5B, said Poldrack Estates and
	Lots 2 and 3, said Twenty-Nine Ranch for an angle point hereof, from
	which a 1/2-inch iron rod found bears S32°14'32"W, a distance of
	1.31 feet;
	3)  N69°21'16"E, leaving said Poldrack Estates and rejoining the
	southerly line of said Twenty-Nine Ranch, a distance of 294.84
	feet, to a 1/2-inch iron rod found for an angle point of said Lot 2
	and hereof;
	4)  N71°27'12"E, a distance of 234.01 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said Lot 2 and hereof;
	5)  N72°01'52"E, a distance of 183.26 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the common southeasterly corner of Lots 1 and 2, said
	Twenty-Nine Ranch and an angle point hereof;
	6)  N70°51'21"E, a distance of 340.43 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said Lot 1 and hereof;
	7) N69°46'40"E, a distance of 330.74 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for an angle point of said Lot 1 and hereof;
	8) N82°26"30"E, a distance of 9.29 feet to a l/2-inch iron rod with
	cap set for the northwesterly corner of that certain 3.034 acre
	tract described in a deed to Lonnie Draper, et al, of record in
	Volume 1148, Page 795, of the Official Records of Williamson
	County, Texas, for an angle point of said Lot 1, and for the
	occupied northeasterly corner of said 316 acre tract and hereof;
	THENCE, S21°41'36"E, along the westerly line of said 3.034 acre
	tract, being a portion of the northeasterly line of said 316 acre
	tract and hereof, a distance of 621.44 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the southwesterly corner of said, 3.034 acre tract, for an
	angle point of said 316 acre tract and hereof;
	THENCE, in part along the southeasterly line of said 3.034 acre
	tract, being a portion of the northeasterly line of said 316 acre
	tract, the southeasterly line of that certain 5.526 acre tract
	described in a deed to James L. Click, et ux, in a deed of record in
	Document No. 9820992 of said Official Records, the southeasterly
	line of that certain 1.42 acre tract described in a deed to Allison
	M. Garcia, et al, of record in Document No. 2001016968 of said
	Official Public Records, and the southeasterly line of said Amended
	R. McMillian Subdivision; the following two (2) courses and
	distances:
	1)  N69°21'45"E, at a distance of 34.50 passing a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the common corner of said 3.034 acre tract and said 5.526
	acre tract, at a distance of 496.40 feet passing a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the common corner of said 5.526 acre tract and said 1.42
	acre tract, a total distance of 714.73 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	found for the common corner of said 1.42 acre tract and said Amended
	McMillian Subdivision, for an angle point hereof;
	2)  N68°26'03"E, a distance of 1.30 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod with
	cap set in the southeasterly line of said Amended McMillian
	Subdivision for an angle point hereof;
	THENCE, leaving said Amended McMillian Subdivision, over and across
	said 316 acre tract and said 10.98 acre tract, along a portion of
	the northeasterly line hereof in the following four (4) courses and
	distances;
	1)  S58°42'11"E, a distance of 811.36 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap set for an interior ell corner hereof;
	2)  N31°17'49"E, at a distance of 130.95 feet crossing the westerly
	line of said 10.98 acre tract, leaving said 316 acre tract, a total
	distance of 453.80 feet to a l/2-inch iron rod with cap set for an
	interior ell corner hereof;
	3)  N58°42'11"W, a distance of 50.00 feet to a 1/2-inch iron rod
	with cap set for an exterior ell corner hereof;
	4) N31°17'49"E, a distance of 100.22 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
	containing an area of 228.227(9,941,560 square feet) of land, more
	or less, within these metes and bounds.
	BASIS OF BEARINGS: IS THE TEXAS COORDINATE SYSTEM NAD83(93) CENTRAL
	ZONE CALIBRATED TO LCRA GPS CONTROL MONUMENTS AZF9, AZ54, AND A843
	SECTION 3.  (a)  The legal notice of the intention to
	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
	Government Code.
	(b)  The governor, one of the required recipients, has
	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality.
	(c)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
	representatives within the required time.
	(d)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
	and accomplished.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the House on May 8,
	2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 2734 on May 25, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0,
	1 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 23, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
	__________________
	Governor