Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8802.0035 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SHARED TERRITORY; JURISDICTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The territory of the district includes any territory that is:
(1) inside the boundaries of:
(A) the Edwards Aquifer Authority; and
(B) Hays County; and
(2) not within the boundaries of the Plum Creek Conservation District as those boundaries existed on February 1, 2015.
(b) The Edwards Aquifer Authority has jurisdiction over any well that is drilled to produce water from the Edwards Aquifer in the shared territory described by Subsection (a).
(c) The district has jurisdiction over groundwater and any well that is drilled to produce water from any aquifer other than the Edwards Aquifer in the shared territory described by Subsection (a).
(d) Except for the district and the Edwards Aquifer Authority, no district or authority created under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, has authority in the shared territory described by Subsection (a) to regulate the spacing of water wells or the production from water wells.
(e) The district has jurisdiction over any well that is drilled to produce water from the Edwards Aquifer or any other aquifer in the territory described by Section 8802.003.
(f) The district's jurisdiction over any well that is drilled to produce water in the territory described in Section 8802.003, including a well that is used to recover water that has been injected as part of an aquifer storage and recovery project, applies to all wells for which the district has jurisdiction in the shared territory described by this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 975 (H.B. 3405), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2015.
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