Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 344 - LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION
Subchapter B - STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR IRRIGATORS, IRRIGATION TECHNICIANS, AND IRRIGATION INSPECTORS, AND LOCAL REQUIREMENTS
Section 344.24 - Local Regulation and Inspection

(a) Where any city, town, county, water district, other political subdivision of the state, or public water supplier requires licensed irrigators, irrigation technicians, or irrigation inspectors to comply with reasonable inspection requirements, ordinances, or regulations designed to protect the public water supply, any of which relates to work performed or to be performed within such political subdivision's territory the licensed irrigator, irrigation technician, or irrigation inspector shall comply with such requirements, ordinances, and regulations.

(b) Any city, town, county, water district, other political subdivision of the state, or public water supplier that is not required to adopt rules or ordinances regulating landscape irrigation may adopt a landscape irrigation program by ordinance or rule and may be responsible for inspection of irrigation systems on sites that are connected to its public water supply system. Any rule or ordinance adopted to regulate landscape irrigation shall be at least as stringent as the requirements in this chapter.

(c) Municipalities with a population of 20,000 or more shall verify that the irrigator that designs and installs an irrigation system holds a valid irrigator's license and has obtained a permit before installing a system within its territorial limits or its extraterritorial jurisdiction. Inspectors must verify that the design and installation meet the requirements of this chapter and local ordinances or rules that do not conflict with this chapter, or that are more stringent than this chapter.

(d) A water district that chooses to implement a landscape irrigation program shall meet the program requirements in subsection (c) of this section.