UNAUTHORIZED EMISSIONS PROHIBITED
Known as the Texas Clean Air Act
The act spans §§ 382–382 (162 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Ex Parte Weise (2000)
Most recently applied in in Re Volkswagen Clean Diesel Litigation: Texas Clean Air Act Enforcement Cases (July 2017)
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) Except as authorized by a commission rule or order, a person may not cause, suffer, allow, or permit the emission of any air contaminant or the performance of any activity that causes or contributes to, or that will cause or contribute to, air pollution.
(b) A person may not cause, suffer, allow, or permit the emission of any air contaminant or the performance of any activity in violation of this chapter or of any commission rule or order.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.