Sec. 8501.151.  POWERS UNDER CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAW.  The authority has the powers of a conservation and reclamation district under the constitution and other laws of this state, including the powers:
(1)  expressly authorized in Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, for a district created to conserve, store, control, preserve, use, and distribute the storm water and floodwater and the water of the rivers and streams of the state;
(2)  implied by the purposes of that section of the constitution;  and
(3)  given by general law.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1277, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2005.