Tex. Water Code § 49.505 · Subchapter O. EFFECT OF SUBDIVISION OF NONAGRICULTURAL LAND ON WATER RIGHTS
CALCULATION OF PROPORTIONATE WATER RIGHTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A district that receives a petition under Section 49.503 shall compute the proportionate amount of water rights to the Rio Grande. The proportionate amount of water rights is equal to the amount of irrigable acres of land in the subdivision multiplied by the lesser of:
(1) 1.25 acre-feet per irrigable acre; or
(2) the sum of all irrigation water rights owned by the district on September 1, 2007, as if the water rights had been converted to municipal use under applicable commission rules, divided by the total amount of irrigable acres of land in the district on September 1, 2007.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1430 (S.B. 3), Sec. 2.24, eff. September 1, 2007.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.49.htm
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- Tex. Water Code § 49.506PROVISION OR CONVERSION OF PROPORTIONATE WATER RIGHTS BY DISTRICT.Printed as Section 49.505
- Tex. Water Code § 49.507CONTRACT TO PURCHASE PROPORTIONATE WATER RIGHTS; WATER RIGHTS SALE CONTRACT.Printed as Section 49.505
- Tex. Water Code § 49.508CONTRACT TO USE PROPORTIONATE WATER RIGHTS; WATER SUPPLY CONTRACT.Printed as Section 49.505
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