Tex. Water Code § 11.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
VESTED RIGHTS NOT AFFECTED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Nothing in this code affects vested private rights to the use of water, except to the extent that provisions of Subchapter G of this chapter might affect these rights.
(b) This code does not recognize any riparian right in the owner of any land the title to which passed out of the State of Texas after July 1, 1895.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.11.htm
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- sha256 090ccc261c3ec686477f0aa20941afb589bde8a99b74c279ce5214ec3b7ef1b7
- Composed by
- 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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