The compact is binding and obligatory when it is ratified by the legislatures of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma and consented to by the United States under Article XIII of the compact.
Tex. Water Code § 46.012
TIME WHEN COMPACT BINDING
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 551, ch. 261, Sec. 1, eff
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