GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
Known as the Texas Clean Air Act
The act spans §§ 382–382 (162 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Rhine (2009)
Most recently applied in City of Houston v. BCCA Appeal Group, Inc. (August 2013)
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The commission shall:
(1) administer this chapter;
(2) establish the level of quality to be maintained in the state's air; and
(3) control the quality of the state's air.
(b) The commission shall seek to accomplish the purposes of this chapter through the control of air contaminants by all practical and economically feasible methods.
(c) The commission has the powers necessary or convenient to carry out its responsibilities.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.