Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 11.072 · Subchapter F. REGULATION OF MINERAL RECOVERY OPERATIONS ON DEPARTMENT LANDS
ENFORCEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a person has violated, is violating, or is threatening to violate a regulation adopted under this subchapter, the director may have a civil suit brought in a district court for injunctive relief, for assessment and recovery of a civil penalty of not less than $100 for each act of violation, or for both injunctive relief and a civil penalty.
(b) A suit under this subchapter shall be brought in the name of the department through the attorney general.
(c) Reasonable attorney's fees shall also be recoverable, with reimbursement to the operating fund or account from which the expenditure occurred.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 1, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 679, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.11.htm
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