GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

(a) The authority may: (1) provide for the conservation, preservation, protection, recharge, and prevention of waste of groundwater, and for the reduction of groundwater withdrawals as necessary to develop, implement, or enforce a groundwater reduction plan, in a manner consistent with the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and facilitate compliance with subsidence district rules, orders, regulations, or requirements; (2) acquire or develop surface water and groundwater supplies from sources inside or outside the boundaries of the authority, conserve, store, transport, treat, purify, distribute, sell, and deliver water to or among persons inside and outside the boundaries of the authority, and allocate water among persons participating in the authority's groundwater reduction plan whether they are located inside or outside the authority's boundaries; (3) enter into contracts with persons inside or outside the authority on terms and conditions the board considers desirable, fair, and advantageous for the performance of its rights, powers, and authority under this chapter; (4) coordinate water services provided inside, outside, or into the authority; and (5) administer and enforce this chapter. (b) The following laws do not apply to the authority: (1) Chapter 36, Water Code; (2) Section 49.052, Water Code; and (3) Sections 49.451-49.455, Water Code. (c) The authority has all the rights, powers, privileges, authority, functions, and duties necessary and convenient to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. (d) The authority's rights, powers, privileges, authority, functions, and duties are subject to the continuing right of supervision of the state, to be exercised by and through the commission.