Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8834.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSE; LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the regulation of groundwater withdrawal in the district to prevent subsidence, which contributes to or precipitates flooding or overflow in the district, including rising water resulting from a storm or hurricane.
(b) The legislature intends that the district administer and enforce this chapter and exercise the district's rights, powers, and duties in a manner that will effectively and expeditiously accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.05, eff. April 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8834.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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