Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 11.081 · Subchapter G. AQUATIC VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Governing entity" means the state agency or other political subdivision with jurisdiction over a public body of surface water.
(2) "Integrated pest management" means the coordinated use of pest and environmental information and pest control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means and in a manner that will cause the least possible hazard to persons, property, and the environment.
(3) "Local plan" means a local aquatic vegetation management plan authorized by Section 11.083.
(4) "Public body of surface water" means any body of surface water that is not used exclusively for an agricultural purpose. The term does not include impounded water on private property.
(5) "State plan" means the state aquatic vegetation management plan authorized by Section 11.082 and developed and implemented under this subchapter.
(6) "Water district" means a conservation and reclamation district or an authority created under authority of Section 52(b)(1) or (2), Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, that has jurisdiction over a public body of surface water. The term does not include a navigation district or a port authority.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1461, Sec. 1.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.11.htm
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