By: Truan S.B. No. 655
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the repeal of the exemption of mariculture activities
1-2 from certain permit requirements under the Water Code.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.121, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 11.121. PERMIT REQUIRED. Except as provided in Section
1-7 <Sections> 11.142 <and 11.1421> of this code, no person may
1-8 appropriate any state water or begin construction of any work
1-9 designed for the storage, taking, or diversion of water without
1-10 first obtaining a permit from the commission to make the
1-11 appropriation.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 11.1421, Water Code, is repealed.
1-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.