An owner of real property abutting a road or ditch or the owner of a tract of property that is located wholly or partly within one mile of a road or ditch may construct at the owner's cost lateral drainage ditches and may connect those ditches with a main ditch constructed under this chapter.
Tex. Transp. Code § 254.007
PRIVATE DITCHES
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
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