Definiciones sobre el uso y derechos del agua en Texas

Sec. 11.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter and in Chapter 12 of this code: (1) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2) "Board" means the Texas Water Development Board. (3) "Executive director" means the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (4) "Beneficial use" means use of the amount of water which is economically necessary for a purpose authorized by this chapter, when reasonable intelligence and reasonable diligence are used in applying the water to that purpose and shall include conserved water. (5) "Water right" means a right acquired under the laws of this state to impound, divert, or use state water. Statute text rendered on: 1/1/2024 - 210 - WATER CODE (6) "Appropriator" means a person who has made beneficial use of any water in a lawful manner under the provisions of any act of the legislature before the enactment of Chapter 171, General Laws, Acts of the 33rd Legislature, 1913, as amended, and who has filed with the State Board of Water Engineers a record of his appropriation as required by the 1913 Act, as amended, or a person who makes or has made beneficial use of any water within the limitations of a permit lawfully issued by the commission or one of its predecessors. (7) Renumbered as subd. (6) by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 795, Sec. 1.003, eff. Sept. 1, 1985. (8) "Conservation" means: (A) the development of water resources; and (B) those practices, techniques, and technologies that will reduce the cons