Texas Water Code - WATER § 49.001. Definitions

(1) “District” means any district or authority created by authority of either Sections 52(b)(1) and (2), Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, regardless of how created. The term “district” shall not include any navigation district or port authority created under general or special law, any conservation and reclamation district created pursuant to Chapter 62, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, 1951 (Article 8280-141, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or any conservation and reclamation district governed by Chapter 36 unless a special law creating the district or amending the law creating the district states that this chapter applies to that district.

(2) “Commission” means the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

(3) “Board” means the governing body of a district.

(4) “Executive director” means the executive director of the commission.

(5) “Water supply corporation” means a nonprofit water supply or sewer service corporation created or operating under Chapter 67.

(6) “Director” means either a supervisor or director appointed or elected to the board.

(7) “Municipal solid waste” has the same meaning assigned by Section 361.003, Health and Safety Code.

(8) “Special water authority” means a river authority as that term is defined in Section 30.003, or a district created by a special Act of the legislature that:

(9) “Potable water” means water that has been treated for public drinking water supply purposes.

(10) “District facility” means tangible real and personal property of the district, including any plant, equipment, means, recreational facility as defined by Section 49.462, or instrumentality owned, leased, operated, used, controlled, furnished, or supplied for, by, or in connection with the business or operations of a district. The term specifically includes a reservoir or easement of a district.