Municipal Utility Districts and other water districts
Municipal Utility Districts and other water districts
("MUDs") have been a vital component to the development
of quality developments in the Houston area and other parts
of Texas. MUDs allow for the financing of public infrastructure
with tax-exempt bonds, while also allowing for the residents
of a community to control their own water, sewer, drainage
and other public facilities.
ABHR enjoys the largest water district practice in Texas.
Our clients include municipal utility districts, water control
and improvement districts, levee improvement districts, water
supply corporations, and other specially created water, wastewater
and drainage political subdivisions that collectively serve
hundreds of thousands of people throughout Texas. ABHR attorneys
have created water districts to finance and operate development
infrastructure throughout Texas. We secure approvals from
municipalities, negotiate utility services agreements, and
perform legal work required for creation of the district.
ABHR has the capabilities to meet the comprehensive legal
requirements of the district, including acting as bond counsel
in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, advising on a wide-array
of issues including construction law, real property acquisition,
open meetings and public information law, contracts and other
specialties.
ABHR attorneys have been key participants in the major developments
affecting water districts in Texas for the past 30 years,
playing particularly important roles in the revisions to
the Texas Water Code and other important laws affecting water
districts. We also served as primary drafters of the revisions
to the administrative rules regulating water districts adopted
by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and its
predecessor agencies.
Instrumental in the creation and development of the Association
of Water Board Directors (AWBD), our attorneys serve on the
advisory council of AWBD and have had primary responsibility
for legislative matters affecting the AWBD membership