Tex. Water Code § 11.040 · Subchapter B. RIGHTS IN STATE WATER
PERMANENT WATER RIGHT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A permanent water right is an easement and passes with the title to land.
(b) A written instrument conveying a permanent water right may be recorded in the same manner as any other instrument relating to a conveyance of land.
(c) The owner of a permanent water right is entitled to use water according to the terms of his contract. If there is no contract, the owner is entitled to use water at a just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory price.
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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- 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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