Texas Local Government Code 551.007 – Water Conservation by Home-Rule Municipality
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Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 551.007
- Home-rule municipality: means a municipality designated by Chapter 5 as a home-rule municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
A home-rule municipality may adopt and enforce ordinances requiring water conservation in the municipality and by customers of the municipality’s municipally owned water and sewer utility in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.