Tex. Transportation Code § 254.007
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 254.007, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 254.007. PRIVATE DITCHES.
Official statutory text
An owner of real property abutting a road or ditch or the owner of a tract of property that is located wholly or partly within one mile of a road or ditch may construct at the owner's cost lateral drainage ditches and may connect those ditches with a main ditch constructed under this chapter.
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