Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8887.102 · Subchapter C. POWERS AND DUTIES
WELL PERMITS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district may:
(1) require a permit for drilling, equipping, or completing a well in a groundwater reservoir in the district; and
(2) issue a permit subject to terms relating to drilling, equipping, or completing a well that are necessary to prevent waste or contamination.
(b) The district may not deny an owner of land, or the owner's heirs, assigns, and lessees, a permit to drill a well on that land or to produce groundwater from that well subject to rules adopted to prevent waste or contamination.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 869 (H.B. 2803), Sec. 1.04, eff. April 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8887.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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