CHAPTER 330. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS - Texas Statutes

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE

TITLE 10. PARKS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES

SUBTITLE B. COUNTY PARKS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL

RESOURCES

CHAPTER 330. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Sec. 330.001. OPERATION AND FINANCING OF COUNTY MUSEUMS. (a)

This section applies only to a county that has substantial urban

areas and borders on an international boundary. For the purposes

of this subsection, a county has substantial urban areas only if

at least four municipalities, each with a population of more than

25,000, are located in the county.

(b) A county may construct or operate a museum in the county to

display, construct, restore, preserve, maintain, or reconstruct

buildings, works of art, and related furnishings for exhibitions.

(c) A county may contract with an entity operating a museum in

the county to provide the museum described by Subsection (b). To

be eligible to enter into the contract, the entity must be:

(1) organized under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act

(Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and

(2) accredited by a nationally recognized association of museums

acceptable to the county.

(d) As part of the contract, the commissioners court may

appropriate money from the general fund of the county to the

museum to purchase, display, construct, restore, preserve,

maintain, operate, or reconstruct a building, work of art, or

related furnishings used by the museum to further its exhibitions

or operations and to promote county purposes under this chapter.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch.

738, Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.