Tex. Water Code § 54.012 · Subchapter B. CREATION OR EXPANSION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
PURPOSES OF A DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A district shall be created for the following purposes:
(1) the control, storage, preservation, and distribution of its storm water and floodwater, the water of its rivers and streams for irrigation, power, and all other useful purposes;
(2) the reclamation and irrigation of its arid, semiarid, and other land needing irrigation;
(3) the reclamation and drainage of its overflowed land and other land needing drainage;
(4) the conservation and development of its forests, water, and hydroelectric power;
(5) the navigation of its inland and coastal water;
(6) the control, abatement, and change of any shortage or harmful excess of water;
(7) the protection, preservation, and restoration of the purity and sanitary condition of water within the state; and
(8) the preservation of all natural resources of the state, including through the use of geothermal water conveyance systems for the preservation of natural resources.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 775, ch. 84, Sec. 1.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 455 (H.B. 4370), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.54.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
Cited by 14 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Water Code § 54.012. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Special District Local Laws Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3851.003PURPOSE; LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 3851.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8137.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8142.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8143.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8144.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8145.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8146.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8147.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8148.002FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8149.004FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
- Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8150.003FINDINGS OF BENEFIT AND PUBLIC PURPOSE.Printed as Section 54.012, Water Code
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