A district may acquire, purchase, take over, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering facilities, belt railroads, floating plants, literage, lands, towing facilities, and all other facilities or aids incident to or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways inside the district extending to the Gulf of Mexico.
Official text of the Texas Water Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.