Tex. Transp. Code § 51.013 · Chapter 51. TEXAS COASTAL WATERWAY ACT
DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall condemn land for disposal of dredged material for the Laguna Madre section of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway only in accordance with the Draft Laguna Madre GIWW Dredged Material Management Plan prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Interagency Coordination Team dated October 11, 2002.
(b) On request by a political subdivision, the commission may enter into a contract with a political subdivision to dispose of dredged material from the Highland Bayou Diversionary Canal on Placement Area 58A of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway.
(c) The commission may not charge a fee for disposal under Subsection (b).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 191, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 242 (S.B. 2380), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.51.htm
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