Tex. Water Code § 51.510
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 51.510, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 51.510.
Official statutory text
Sec. 51.510. PURPOSE OF SECTIONS 51.511-51.530 OF CODE. The purpose of Sections 51.511-51.530 of this code is to give a district the flexibility of taxing power which will permit and cause the tax of the district to be equitably distributed and which will give the highest practicable degree of service under the peculiar physical and economic conditions of the district. To this end, these sections shall be liberally and sympathetically construed.
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