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Texas Constitution talk:Article XI, Section 7
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== add ? == A county's spending authority also implicates section 7 of article XI of the Texas Constitution, which prohibits a county from incurring a "debt" without establishing a tax to cover interest on the obligation and create a sinking fund of at least 2% to reduce the principal. See TEX. CONST. art. XI, Β§ 7. A "debt" for constitutional purposes means any contractual pecuniary obligation except that which was within the lawful and reasonable contemplation of the parties, at the time of the agreement, "to be satisfied out of the current revenues f()r the year or out of some fund then within the immediate control of the county." Tex. & New Orleans R.R. v. Galveston County, 169 S.W.2d 713, 715 (Tex. 1943). https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2019/kp0261.pdf
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