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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Natural Resources Code § 134.179: CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR WILFUL AND KNOWING VIOLATION.

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  1. NATURAL RESOURCES CODE
  2. TITLE 4. MINES AND MINING
  3. CHAPTER 134. TEXAS SURFACE COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION ACT
  4. SUBCHAPTER H. ENFORCEMENT

(a) A person commits an offense if the person wilfully and knowingly violates a condition of a permit issued under this chapter or does not comply with an order issued under this chapter, except an order incorporated in a decision issued by the commission under Section 134.175.

(b) An offense under this section is punishable by:

(1) a fine of not more than $10,000;

(2) imprisonment for not more than one year; or

(3) both the fine and the imprisonment.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 12.02(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

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