Sec. 374.034.  ALLOCATION OF TAX COLLECTIONS AND TAX INCREMENTS;  TAX INCREMENT FUND.  (a)  For the purposes of this chapter, the tax assessor-collector has the sole authority and the duty to collect the taxes levied by the municipality and all other taxing entities on property located within an urban renewal project and to allocate taxes and tax increments in the manner required by this chapter.
(b)  Beginning with the first payment of taxes levied by the municipality or other taxing entity after the time an urban renewal project is designated, the receipts from those taxes shall be allocated and paid as provided by this subsection.  The receipts from the property taxes collected that are produced from the tax increment base shall first be allocated and paid to the municipality or appropriate taxing entity.  All tax increments produced from the captured market value of the property located within the urban renewal project district shall then be deposited into the tax increment fund established for the project.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.