Tex. Util. Code § 251.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXEMPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The following are not subject to this chapter as underground facilities:
(1) an aboveground or underground storage tank, sump, or impoundment or piping connected to an aboveground or underground storage tank, sump, or impoundment located in the same tract of land as the storage tank, sump, or impoundment;
(2) an underground facility operated by the owner of a secured facility and located entirely within the secured facility;
(3) an underground facility that serves only the owner of the underground facility or the owner's tenant and that is located solely on the owner's property;
(4) piping within a well bore;
(5) the portion of an exploration and production underground facility that is located within the boundaries of the oil or gas field from which the oil and gas is produced and that is not located in the boundaries of an established easement or right-of-way granted for the benefit of a governmental entity or a private entity if the easement or right-of-way is granted for a public purpose; or
(6) an underground facility that serves a cemetery and is located solely on the cemetery's property.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.17(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.251.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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