Texas Water Code

§ 26.001 — DEFINITIONS

WA § 26.001Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part D. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Ch. 26. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Art. A. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

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As used in this chapter:

(1)"Board" means the Texas Water Development Board.

(2)"Commission" means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

(3)"Executive administrator" means the executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board.

(4)"Executive director" means the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

(5)"Water" or "water in the state" means groundwater, percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, wetlands, marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico, inside the territorial limits of the state, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, navigable or nonnavigable, and including the beds and banks of all watercourses and bodies of surface water, that are wholly or partially inside or bordering the state or inside the jurisdiction of the state.

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Legislative history

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 986 (S.B. 766), Sec. 78, eff. September 1, 2025.