Tex. Water Code § 44.001
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 44.001, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 44.001. RATIFICATION.
Official statutory text
The Sabine River Compact, the text of which is set out in Section 44.010 of this code, was ratified by the legislature of this state in Chapter 63, Acts of the 53rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1953, after having been signed at Logansport, Louisiana, on January 26, 1953, by Roy T. Sessums, representative for the State of Louisiana, and Henry L. Woodworth and John W. Simmons, representatives for the State of Texas, and approved by Louis W. Prentiss, representative of the United States.
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