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Texas Constitution talk:Article XI, Section 5
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== review == And a political subdivision may βnot, by contract or otherwise, bind itself in such a way as to restrict its free exercise of governmental powers, nor [can] it abdicate its governmental functions, even for a reasonable time.β Clear Lake City Water Auth. v. Clear Lake Util. Co., 549 S.W.2d 385, 391 (Tex. 1977). Under this common-law reserved powers doctrine, β[c]ertain powers are conferred on government entities for public purposes, and can neither be delegated nor bartered away.β Kirby Lake Dev., Ltd. v. Clear Lake City Water Auth., 320 S.W.3d 829, 843 (Tex. 2010) (quotation marks omitted).
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