Terms Used In Texas Water Code Chapter 49 > Subchapter J-1 - Exclusion of Urban Property From Certain Water Districts

• Board: means the governing body of a district. See Texas Water Code 49.001
• Commission: means the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. See Texas Water Code 49.001
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• District: means any district or authority created under Sections Texas Water Code 49.3181
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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.
• Potable water: means water that has been treated for public drinking water supply purposes. See Texas Water Code 49.001
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
• sworn: includes affirm or affirmed. See Texas Government Code 312.011
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
• Urban property: means land that:
  (A) has been subdivided into town lots, town lots and blocks, or small parcels of the same general nature as town lots or town lots and blocks and is designed, intended, or suitable for residential or other nonagricultural purposes, as distinguished from farm acreage, and includes streets, alleys, parkways, parks, and railroad property and rights-of-way within that subdivided land; and
  (B) is in a subdivision:
  (i) that is within the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that has subdivision approval jurisdiction under Chapter 212, Local Government Code; and
  (ii) for which a plat or map has been filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the subdivision or any part of the subdivision is located. See Texas Water Code 49.3181