Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code Chapter 397A - Regional Military Sustainability Commissions Relating to Certain Military Installations

• Agricultural use: means use or activity involving agriculture. See Texas Local Government Code 397A.051
• Agriculture: means :
  (A) cultivating the soil to produce crops for human food, animal feed, seed for planting, or the production of fibers;
  (B) practicing floriculture, viticulture, silviculture, or horticulture;
  (C) raising, feeding, or keeping animals for breeding purposes or for the production of food, fiber, leather, pelts, or other tangible products having commercial value;
  (D) planting cover crops, including cover crops cultivated for transplantation, or leaving land idle for the purpose of participating in a government program or normal crop or livestock rotation procedure; or
  (E) engaging in wildlife management. See Texas Local Government Code 397A.051
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Texas Agriculture Code 1.003
• 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
• Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.