Texas Parks and Wildlife Code
§ 11.084 — APPLICATION OF AQUATIC HERBICIDE IN PUBLIC BODY OF SURFACE WATER
PW § 11.084Title 2. PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT · Ch. 11. PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT · Art. G. AQUATIC VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
Statute text
View on source(a)No person may apply aquatic herbicide in a public body of surface water unless the herbicide is applied in a manner consistent with the plan adopted by the governing entity.
(b)State money may not be used to pay for treatment of a public body of surface water with a chemical herbicide unless the application of the herbicide is performed by an applicator licensed for aquatic herbicide application by the Department of Agriculture.
(c)An individual who does not hold an applicator's license and who desires to apply an aquatic herbicide on a public body of surface water shall give written notice not later than the 14th day before the date the application of the aquatic herbicide is to occur to the governing entity with jurisdiction over the body of water on which the application of the herbicide is proposed. The governing entity shall respond to the individual's application not later than the day before the date the application of the aquatic herbicide is to occur. The individual may not apply the aquatic herbicide unless the governing entity finds that the application will be consistent with the state or local plan adopted by the entity.
(d)The state plan may provide for use of an aquatic herbicide consistent with the plan if:
(1)the individual who desires to apply the aquatic herbicide gives notice to the appropriate governing entity in the same manner as provided by Subsection (c) for an unlicensed applicator; and
(2)the governing entity does not disapprove the application.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1461, Sec. 1, eff. Feb. 2, 2001.