Tex. Water Code § 5.504 · Subchapter L. EMERGENCY AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
HEARING TO AFFIRM, MODIFY, OR SET ASIDE ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the commission, the executive director, or the executive director's representative issues an emergency order under this subchapter without a hearing, the order shall set a time and place for a hearing to affirm, modify, or set aside the emergency order to be held before the commission or its designee as soon as practicable after the order is issued.
(b) At or following the hearing required under Subsection (a), the commission shall affirm, modify, or set aside the emergency order.
(c) A hearing to affirm, modify, or set aside an emergency order shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 2001, Government Code, and commission rules. Commission rules concerning a hearing to affirm, modify, or set aside an emergency order must provide for presentation of evidence by the applicant under oath, presentation of rebuttal evidence, and cross-examination of witnesses.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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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.5.htm
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- Tex. Water Code § 5.514ORDER ISSUED UNDER AIR EMERGENCY.Printed as Section 5.504
- Tex. Water Code § 13.041GENERAL POWERS OF UTILITY COMMISSION AND COMMISSION; RULES; HEARINGS.Printed as Section 5.504
- Tex. Water Code § 26.022NOTICE OF HEARINGS; CONTINUANCE.Printed as Sections 5.501, 5.504, 5.509, and 26.176
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