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

Tex. Water Code § 7.251: ACT OF GOD.

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  1. WATER CODE
  2. TITLE 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION
  3. SUBTITLE A. EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
  4. CHAPTER 7. ENFORCEMENT
  5. SUBCHAPTER F. DEFENSES

If a person can establish that an event that would otherwise be a violation of a statute within the commission's jurisdiction or a rule adopted or an order or a permit issued under such a statute was caused solely by an act of God, war, strike, riot, or other catastrophe, the event is not a violation of that statute, rule, order, or permit.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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