Sec. 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. Aug. 30, 1971.