Tex. Water Code § 54.208 · Subchapter D. POWERS AND DUTIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF RULES.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The penalty for violation of a rule is not effective and enforceable until five days after the publication of the notice. Five days after the publication, the published rule shall be in effect and ignorance of it is not a defense to a prosecution for the enforcement of the penalty.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 788, ch. 84, Sec. 1.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.54.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 296ec23d3cbff2bbab0ee80cc54e258a716e2fb2e395d0967d2918e97f6f6b98
- 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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