(a) Except to the extent otherwise provided by the Act, an ordinance adopted by a participating municipality pursuant to the Act takes effect on either (i) the effective date stated in the ordinance, if the system receives the ordinance by the fifteenth day of the month after the effective date; or (ii) the first day of the month after the month in which the system receives the ordinance, if the ordinance does not specify an effective date or is not received by the system by the fifteenth day of the month after the specified effective date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an ordinance adopted under §853.003 of the Act becomes effective on the actual date of final adoption by the participating municipality.     
      (b) Pursuant to §§855.102 and 855.201 of the Act, the board authorizes the director of the system to approve those ordinances requiring approval of the board, under §§853.403 and 854.203(g) of the Act. All ordinances approved by the director shall be reported to the board at the next meeting.     
      (c) For any entity that is not a municipality but (i) that is granted the standing of a municipality pursuant to §852.005 of the Act, or (ii) that the system determines to be a department of a participating municipality for purposes of the Act where such entity has a governing board separate from the governing body of the municipality, the governing board of such entity may by board resolution, or by other appropriate documentation normally taken by the governing board to take action, take any action that is required or authorized by the Act or this Part 6 of Title 34, Administrative Code, to be made by municipal ordinance.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §125.10 adopted to be effective April 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 2587