Tex. Water Code § 7.189 · Subchapter E. CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
VENUE.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Venue for prosecution of an alleged violation under this subchapter is in:
(1) the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred;
(2) the county where the defendant resides;
(3) if the alleged violation involves the transportation of a discharge, waste, or pollutant, any county to which or through which the discharge, waste, or pollutant was transported; or
(4) Travis County.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.7.htm
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- sha256 4cf85e59cad4a47bba1e4c4a8be4456c951e236f26d9df9c61f05380fb5e7bdf
- 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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