Sec. 8888.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:

(1) "Agricultural crop" means:

(A) a food or fiber commodity grown for resale or commercial purposes that provides food, clothing, or animal feed; or

(B) a nursery product or florist item that is in the possession of a nursery grower.

(2) "Authority" means the North Harris County Regional Water Authority.

(3) "Board" means the authority's board of directors.

(4) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

(5) "Director" means a member of the board.

(6) "Florist item" means a cut flower, potted plant, blooming plant, inside foliage plant, bedding plant, corsage flower, cut foliage, floral decoration, or live decorative material.

(7) "Groundwater reduction plan" means a plan adopted or implemented to supply water, reduce reliance on groundwater, regulate groundwater pumping and water usage, or require and allocate water usage among persons in order to comply with or exceed the minimum requirements imposed by the subsidence district, including any applicable groundwater reduction requirements.

(8) "Local government" means a municipality, county, special district, or other political subdivision of this state or a combination of two or more of those entities.

(9) "Nursery grower" means a person who grows, in any medium, more than 50 percent of the nursery products or florist items that the person sells or leases, regardless of the variety sold, leased, or grown. For the purposes of this definition, "grow" means the actual cultivation or propagation of the nursery product or florist item beyond the mere holding or maintaining of the item before sale or lease and typically includes activities associated with the production or multiplying of stock such as the development of new plants from cuttings, grafts, plugs, or seedlings.

(10) "Nursery product" includes a tree, shrub, vine, cutting, graft, scion, grass, bulb, or bud that is grown for, kept for, or capable of propagation and distribution for sale or lease.

(11) "Subsidence" means the lowering in elevation of the surface of land by the withdrawal of groundwater.

(12) "Subsidence district" means the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District.

(13) "System" means a network of pipelines, conduits, canals, pumping stations, force mains, and treatment plants, and any other construction, device, or related appurtenance, used to treat or transport water.

(14) "Water" includes:

(A) groundwater, percolating or otherwise;

(B) any surface water, natural or artificial, navigable or nonnavigable; and

(C) industrial and municipal wastewater.

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 869 (H.B. 2803), Sec. 1.04, eff. April 1, 2019.