Texas Parks and Wildlife Code

§ 14.001 — DEFINITIONS

PW § 14.001Title 2. PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT · Ch. 14. POWERS AND DUTIES CONCERNING WETLANDS · Art. A. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

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In this chapter:

(1)"Department" means the Parks and Wildlife Department.

(2)"Land office" means the General Land Office.

(3)"Mitigation" means the sequential process of avoiding impacts to wetlands, minimizing impacts to wetlands, and providing compensation for losses to wetlands.

(4)"State-owned coastal wetlands" mean wetlands owned by state agencies underlying or adjacent to tidal waters.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 265, Sec. 3, eff. June 5, 1991.