Texas Water Code Title 2, Chapter 35 - Groundwater Studies

• Texas Section 35.001 - Purpose
  In order to provide for the conservation, preservation, protection, recharging, and prevention of waste of the groundwater, and of groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, and...
• Texas Section 35.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "District" means any district or authority created under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, that has...
• Texas Section 35.003 - Surface Water Laws Not Applicable
  The laws and administrative rules relating to the use of surface water do not apply to groundwater. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 933,...
• Texas Section 35.004 - Designation Of Groundwater Management Areas
  (a) The Texas Water Development Board, with assistance and cooperation from the commission, shall designate groundwater management areas covering all major and minor aquifers in...
• Texas Section 35.007 - Identifying, Designating, And Delineating Priority Groundwater Management Areas
  (a) The executive director and the executive administrator shall meet periodically to identify, based on information gathered by the commission and the Texas Water Development...
• Texas Section 35.008 - Procedures For Designation Of Priority Groundwater Management Area; Consideration Of Creation Of New District Or Addition Of Land In Priority Groundwater Management Area To Existing District; Commission Order
  (a) The commission shall designate priority groundwater management areas using the procedures provided by this chapter in lieu of those provided by Subchapter B, Chapter...
• Texas Section 35.009 - Notice And Hearing
  (a) The commission shall have notice of the hearing published in at least one newspaper with general circulation in the county or counties in which...
• Texas Section 35.012 - Creation Of District In Priority Groundwater Management Area
  (a) Following the issuance of a commission order under Section 35.008 designating a priority groundwater management area and recommending the creation of one or more...
• Texas Section 35.013 - Adding Priority Groundwater Management Area To Existing District
  (a) If the commission in its order under Section 35.008 recommends that the priority groundwater management area or a portion of the priority groundwater management...
• Texas Section 35.014 - Costs Of Elections
  (a) The costs of an election to create a district at which a district is authorized to be created shall be paid by the district....
• Texas Section 35.015 - State Assistance
  A political subdivision located in an area delineated as a priority groundwater management area, and in which qualified voters approve the creation of a district...
• Texas Section 35.017 - State-owned Land
  If state-owned land or a portion of state-owned land is located in a priority groundwater management area, the state agency that has management and control...
• Texas Section 35.018 - Reports
  (a) No later than January 31 of each odd-numbered year, the commission in conjunction with the Texas Water Development Board shall prepare and deliver to...
• Texas Section 35.019 - Water Availability
  (a) The commissioners court of a county in a priority groundwater management area may adopt water availability requirements in an area where platting is required...
• Texas Section 35.020 - Public Participation In Groundwater Management Process
  It is the policy of the state to encourage public participation in the groundwater management process in areas within a groundwater management area not represented...

Last modified: September 28, 2016