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Terms Used In Texas Water Code 7.071

  • 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.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

An agreed administrative order issued by the commission under this subchapter is not admissible against a party to that order in a civil proceeding unless the proceeding is brought by the attorney general’s office to:
(1) enforce the terms of that order; or
(2) pursue a violation of a statute within the commission’s jurisdiction or of a rule adopted or an order or a permit issued under such a statute.