Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8509.0203 · Subchapter E. REGULATORY POWERS
NOTICE OF RULE PROVIDING PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the district adopts a rule that provides a penalty, the district must publish a substantive statement of the rule and the penalty once a week for two consecutive weeks in each county in which any part of the reservoir to which the rule applies is situated.
(b) A single statement must be as condensed as possible so that the act prohibited by the rule can be easily understood.
(c) The statement may include notice of any number of rules.
(d) The notice must state that:
(1) a person who violates the rule is subject to a penalty; and
(2) the rule is on file in the district's principal office, where the rule may be read by any interested person.
(e) A rule takes effect five days after the date of second publication of the statement under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 468 (H.B. 4172), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2021.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8509.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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