Tex. Health & Safety Code § 374.152 · Subchapter D. RESPONSE TO RELEASE; CORRECTIVE ACTION
INVESTIGATION AND ASSESSMENT OF RELEASE; EMERGENCY ACTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a release or a potential release poses a threat to human health or to the environment, the commission shall:
(1) investigate and assess the extent of the resulting contamination; and
(2) take necessary or appropriate emergency action to ensure that human health or safety is not threatened by the release or the potential release.
(b) Emergency action under Subsection (a)(2) may include the treatment, restoration, or replacement of drinking water supplies.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 540, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.374.htm
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