Texas Water Code

§ 11.001 — VESTED RIGHTS NOT AFFECTED

WA § 11.001Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part B. WATER RIGHTS · Ch. 11. WATER RIGHTS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Statute text

(a)Nothing in this code affects vested private rights to the use of water, except to the extent that provisions of Subchapter G of this chapter might affect these rights.

(b)This code does not recognize any riparian right in the owner of any land the title to which passed out of the State of Texas after July 1, 1895.

Legislative history

Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.