Tex. Occ. Code § 1901.202 · Subchapter E. EXAMINATION
CONTENTS OF EXAMINATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall ensure that examinations are designed to disqualify a person who lacks the necessary knowledge of drilling, of completion and plugging methods and techniques, and of groundwater formations to the extent that drilling by the person would create a serious risk of polluting fresh water.
(b) The department may prescribe additional requirements:
(1) for the examination of monitoring well drillers; and
(2) that relate to water conservation for the examination of dewatering well drillers.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 4, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 745 (H.B. 3744), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1901.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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