Tex. Health & Safety Code § 366.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
POLICY AND PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
It is the public policy of this state and the purpose of this chapter to:
(1) eliminate and prevent health hazards by regulating and properly planning the location, design, construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of on-site sewage disposal systems;
(2) authorize the commission or authorized agent to impose and collect a permit fee for:
(A) construction, installation, alteration, repair, or extension of on-site sewage disposal systems; and
(B) tests, designs, and inspections of those systems;
(3) authorize the commission or authorized agent to impose a penalty for a violation of this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter;
(4) authorize the commission to license or register certain persons; and
(5) allow the individual owner of a disposal system to install and repair the system in accordance with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11.113, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 880, Sec. 21, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.366.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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