Tex. Water Code § 7.158 · Subchapter E. CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
VIOLATION RELATING TO PLUGGING WELLS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person is the owner of a well that is required to be cased or plugged by Chapter 28 and the person:
(1) fails or refuses to case or plug the well within the 30-day period following the date of the commission's order to do so; or
(2) fails to comply with any other order issued by the commission under Chapter 28 within the 30-day period following the date of the order.
(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor and is punishable under Section 7.187(1)(A).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.7.htm
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