Tex. Water Code § 1.002

CONSTRUCTION OF CODE

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority (1979)

Most recently applied in Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, Richard J. Tramm, Sam W. Baker, M. Scott Weisinger, Jim Stinson, John D. Bleyl, Jace Houston, Roy McCoy Jr., Rick Moffatt, and W. B. Wood v. City of Conroe, Texas, Quadvest, L.P., Woodland Oaks Utility, L.P., Crystal Springs Water Co., Inc., Everett Square, Inc., E.S. Water Consolidators, Inc., Utilities Investment Co., Inc., and T&W Water Service Company (February 2017)

Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff

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(a) The Code Construction Act (Chapter 311, Government Code) applies to the construction of each provision in this code, except as otherwise expressly provided by this code.

(b) In this code:

(1) a reference to a title, chapter, or section without further identification is a reference to a title, chapter, or section of this code; and

(2) a reference to a subtitle, subchapter, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, or other numbered or lettered unit without further identification is a reference to a unit of the next larger unit of this code in which the reference appears.

(c) A reference in a law to a statute or part of a statute revised by this code is considered to be a reference to the part of this code that revises that statute or part of the statute.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.