TITLE 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS
                 CHAPTER 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS
                                
                 Sec. 1.001.  Purpose of Code.
                                
  (a) This code is enacted as a part of the state's continuing
   statutory revision program, begun by the Texas Legislative
 Council in 1963 as directed by the legislature in Chapter 448,
  Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963 (Article
     5429b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).  The program
contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's general and
       permanent statute law without substantive change.
                                
  (b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revision
  program, the purpose of this code is to make the general and
      permanent natural resources law more accessible and
                       understandable by:
                                
    (1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;
                                
    (2) employing a format and numbering system designed to
    facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future
                     expansion of the law;
                                
(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional, expired,
        executed, and other ineffective provisions; and
                                
(4) restating the law in modern American English to the greatest
                        extent possible.
                                
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2347, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff.
Sept. 1, 1977.

Sec. 1.002.  Construction of Code.

         The Code Construction Act (Chapter 311, Government Code)
applies to the construction of each provision in this code,
except as otherwise expressly provided by this code.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2347, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff.
Sept. 1, 1977.

Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 71, eff. Sept. 1,
1985