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This bill creates the Alluvium Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1 in Grayson County, Texas, as a special-purpose local government entity. The district is established to promote economic development, provide infrastructure and services, and enhance the area's public welfare. The bill outlines the district's governance structure, which includes a five-member board of directors serving staggered four-year terms, with initial directors specifically named. The district is granted broad powers to undertake improvement projects, provide services, contract with other entities, and potentially create a nonprofit corporation to assist in its mission. The bill allows the district to impose assessments, potentially levy an operation and maintenance tax (subject to voter approval), and issue bonds for various purposes, though not directly from ad valorem taxes. The district can also provide economic development programs, parking facilities, and law enforcement services. Notably, the district's eminent domain power is contingent on receiving a two-thirds vote in the legislature; if that threshold is not met, the district will have no eminent domain authority. The bill explicitly states that the district is meant to supplement, not replace, existing city and county services, and is designed to serve public purposes such as developing the local economy, creating jobs, and improving transportation and infrastructure.

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