When the district is dissolved, it must transfer specified assets, stop imposing district taxes, and wind up liabilities and operations under the stated deadlines.
Sec. 363.302. DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT. (a) On the date that the district is dissolved, the district shall convey or transfer, as provided by Subsection (h): (1) title to land, buildings, real and tangible improvements, and equipment owned by the district; (2) operating funds and reserves for operating expenses and funds that have been budgeted by the district for the remainder of the fiscal year in which the district is dissolved to support crime control activities and programs for residents of the political subdivision that created the district; (3) taxes levied by the district during the current year for crime control purposes; (4) funds established for payment of indebtedness assumed by the district; and (5) any accumulated employee retirement funds. (b) After the date the district is dissolved, the district may not impose taxes for district purposes or for providing crime control activities and programs for the residents of the district. (c) If on the date that the district is dissolved the district has outstanding short-term or long-term liabilities, the board shall, not later than the 30th day after the date of the dissolution, adopt a resolution certifying each outstanding short-term and long-term liability. The political subdivision that created the district shall assume the outstanding short-term and long-term liabilities. The political subdivision shall collect the sales and use tax under Section 321.108 or 323.105, Tax Code, for the remainder of the calendar year and may by resolution of its governing body continue to collect the tax for an additional calendar year if the revenue from the tax is needed to retire liabilities of the district that were assumed by the political subdivision. The governing body shall notify the comptroller of this continuation not later than the 60th day before the date the tax would otherwise expire. Any tax collected after the liabilities have been retired shall be transferred or conveyed as provided by Subsection (a). (d) The district and the board may continue to operate for a period not to exceed two months after carrying out the responsibilities required by Subsections (a) and (c). The board and the district are continued in effect for the purpose of satisfying these responsibilities. (e) If the board and the district are continued in effect under Subsection (d), the board and district are dissolved entirely on the first day of the month following the month in which the board issues an order certifying to the secretary of state that no responsibilities of Subsections (a) and (c) are left unsatisfied. (f) A district or board that continues to operate under Subsection (d) may not incur any new liabilities without the approval of the governing body of the political subdivision that created the district. Not later than the 60th day after the date of the dissolution referendum, the governing body shall review the outstanding liabilities of the district and set a specific date by which the political subdivision must retire the district's outstanding liabilities. (g) On the date that the district is dissolved, district-funded programs, including additional courts, shall immediately terminate and district-funded personnel, except personnel required to retire the responsibilities of the district, are terminated. (h) In a district created by a county, the board shall convey or transfer the value of the items described by Subsection (a) following the apportionment formula described by Section 363.154(a). In a district created by a municipality, the board shall convey or transfer the value of the items described by Subsection (a) to the municipality. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 23.03(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1101 (H.B. 3417), Sec. 4, eff. June 15, 2007.