Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 40.004 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
ADMINISTRATION OF OIL SPILL RESPONSE AND CLEANUP.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The General Land Office, under the direction and control of the commissioner, is the state's lead agency for response to actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil and for cleanup of pollution from unauthorized discharges of oil. The commissioner shall administer this chapter and direct all state discharge response and cleanup operations resulting from unauthorized discharges of oil.
(b) All persons and all other officers, agencies, and subdivisions of the state shall carry out response and cleanup operations related to unauthorized discharges of oil subject to the authority granted to the commissioner under this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 10, Sec. 1, eff. March 28, 1991.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/NR/htm/NR.40.htm
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