Tex. Water Code § 36.206
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 36.206, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 36.206. DISTRICT FEES.
Official statutory text
(a) A temporary board may set fees authorized by this chapter to pay for the creation and initial operation of a district, until such time as the district creation has been confirmed and a permanent board has been elected by a majority vote of the qualified voters voting in the district in an election called for those purposes.
(b) The rate of fees set for agricultural uses shall be no more than 20 percent of the rate applied to municipal uses.
(c) District fees may not be used to purchase groundwater rights unless the purchased rights are acquired for conservation purposes and are permanently held in trust not to be produced.
(b) The rate of fees set for agricultural uses shall be no more than 20 percent of the rate applied to municipal uses.
(c) District fees may not be used to purchase groundwater rights unless the purchased rights are acquired for conservation purposes and are permanently held in trust not to be produced.
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