Section 55.185 - Contract With the United States The board may enter into a contract or other obligation with the United States for the following purposes:
(1) to construct, operate, and maintain necessary facilities to deliver and distribute water;(2) to drain district land;(3) to assume debt for district land;(4) to rent temporarily United States water for use on district land under the federal reclamation laws; or(5) to furnish a water supply to the district under any act of Congress which authorizes it. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 445, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. 8/30/1971.