Texas Water Code

§ 30.003 — DEFINITIONS

WA § 30.003Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part D. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Ch. 30. REGIONAL WASTE DISPOSAL · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"City" means any incorporated city or town, whether operating under general law or under its home-rule charter.

(2)"District" means any district or authority created and existing under Article XVI, Section 59 or Article III, Section 52 of the Texas Constitution, including any river authority.

(3)"Public agency" means any district, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the state which has the power to own and operate waste collection, transportation, treatment, or disposal facilities or systems, and any joint board created under the provisions of Subchapter D or E, Chapter 22, Transportation Code.

(4)"River authority" means any district or authority created by the legislature which contains an area within its boundaries of one or more counties and which is governed by a board of directors appointed or designated in whole or in part by the governor, or by the Texas Water Development Board, including without limitation the San Antonio River Authority.

(5)"River basins" and "coastal basins" mean the river basins and coastal basins now defined and designated by the Texas Water Development Board as separate units for the purposes of water development and inter-watershed transfers, and as they are made certain by contour maps on file in the offices of the Texas Water Development Board, including but not limited to the rivers and their tributaries, streams, water, coastal water, sounds, estuaries, bays, lakes and portions of them, as well as the lands drained by them.

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Legislative history

Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977; Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2185, ch. 834, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 27, 1979; Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 795, Sec. 1.133, eff. Sept. 1, 1985; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.276, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1057, Sec. 8, eff. June 20, 2003.