Tex. Water Code § 11.202
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 11.202, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 11.202. RIGHT TO DRILL ARTESIAN WELL.
Official statutory text
(a) Except as provided by this section, a person is entitled to drill an artesian well for domestic purposes or for stock raising without complying with the general provisions of this code regulating the use of water.
(b) The artesian well must be on that person's own land and must be properly and securely cased.
(c) When water is reached containing mineral or other substances injurious to vegetation or agriculture, the artesian well must be securely capped or its flow controlled so as not to injure another person's land or properly plugged so as to prevent the water from rising above the first impervious stratum below the surface of the ground.
(d) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1108 (H.B. 4630), Sec. 3(1), eff. June 20, 2025.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1108 (H.B. 4630), Sec. 3(1), eff. June 20, 2025.
(b) The artesian well must be on that person's own land and must be properly and securely cased.
(c) When water is reached containing mineral or other substances injurious to vegetation or agriculture, the artesian well must be securely capped or its flow controlled so as not to injure another person's land or properly plugged so as to prevent the water from rising above the first impervious stratum below the surface of the ground.
(d) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1108 (H.B. 4630), Sec. 3(1), eff. June 20, 2025.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1108 (H.B. 4630), Sec. 3(1), eff. June 20, 2025.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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