Sec. 782.002. PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to improve the quality of life for the residents of Texas by:

(1) stimulating orderly economic and socially desirable development; and

(2) conserving and utilizing the state's human and natural resources.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 38, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.