Tex. Water Code § 51.873
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 51.873, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 51.873. APPLICABILITY.
Official statutory text
This subchapter applies only to a district that:
(1) has a contiguous area of more than 1,000 acres;
(2) is within the jurisdiction of two or more counties;
(3) is within the jurisdiction of two river authorities, one of which has issued an interbasin transfer permit to the associated municipality;
(4) has not yet constructed any facilities or borrowed any money;
(5) is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the dissociated municipality and that municipality is located principally in one of the two counties in which the district is located;
(6) is adjacent to the municipal boundary or the area subject to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the associated municipality and that municipality is located principally in the other of the two counties in which the district is located; and
(7) is subject to special storm water runoff or nonpoint source pollution rules of at least one of the two river authorities.
(1) has a contiguous area of more than 1,000 acres;
(2) is within the jurisdiction of two or more counties;
(3) is within the jurisdiction of two river authorities, one of which has issued an interbasin transfer permit to the associated municipality;
(4) has not yet constructed any facilities or borrowed any money;
(5) is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the dissociated municipality and that municipality is located principally in one of the two counties in which the district is located;
(6) is adjacent to the municipal boundary or the area subject to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the associated municipality and that municipality is located principally in the other of the two counties in which the district is located; and
(7) is subject to special storm water runoff or nonpoint source pollution rules of at least one of the two river authorities.
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