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Texas Water Code § 49.505

Calculation of Proportionate Water Rights

Provisions Applicable to All Districts · Effect of Subdivision of Nonagricultural Land on Water Rights

A district that receives a petition under Section 49.503 shall compute the proportionate amount of water rights to the Rio Grande. The proportionate amount of water rights is equal to the amount of irrigable acres of land in the subdivision multiplied by the lesser of:

(1) 1.25 acre-feet per irrigable acre; or

(2) the sum of all irrigation water rights owned by the district on September 1, 2007, as if the water rights had been converted to municipal use under applicable commission rules, divided by the total amount of irrigable acres of land in the district on September 1, 2007.

Official text of the Texas Water Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1430 (S.B. 3), Sec. 2.24, eff. September 1, 2007.

This section refers to

§ 49.503

Sections that refer to this one

§ 49.506§ 49.507§ 49.508