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2025 Texas Statutes
Water Code
Title 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Subchapter A. Purpose and Policy
Section 1.005. Limitation on Exercise of Eminent Domain Power

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TX Water Code § 1.005 (2025)
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Sec. 1.005. LIMITATION ON EXERCISE OF EMINENT DOMAIN POWER. An entity governed by this code and authorized by law to exercise the power of eminent domain may only exercise the power for a public use in accordance with Section 17, Article I, Texas Constitution.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 92 (S.B. 655), Sec. 2, eff. May 18, 2013.

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