Tex. Water Code § 63.151
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 63.151, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 63.151. AUTHORITY OF DISTRICT.
Official statutory text
All districts created under this chapter are essential to the accomplishment of the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, and are governmental agencies and bodies politic and corporate, with the powers of government and authority to exercise the rights, privileges, and functions conferred in this chapter and by the Texas Constitution.
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