Tex. Water Code § 65.208 · Subchapter D. GENERAL 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 last publication of the notice. Five days after the last publication, the published rule takes effect and ignorance of the rule is not a defense to a prosecution for the enforcement of the penalty.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 2448, ch. 435, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 29, 1983. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 447, Sec. 1, eff. Nov. 15, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.65.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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