(a) The governor shall designate a geographical area in the state as a cultural basin if:
- (1) there is a commonality within the area, based on cultural, historical, and economic factors;
- (2) the areas of commonality within the proposed cultural basin are contiguous; and
- (3) state planning regions may be used as building blocks for the formation of the cultural basin.
- (b) The governor shall designate no fewer than four and no more than seven cultural basins.
- (c) Each of three major metropolitan areas should be in separate cultural basins.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 38, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.