Texas Natural Resources Code

§ 51.291 — GRANTS OF EASEMENTS

NR § 51.291Title 2. PUBLIC DOMAIN · Part D. DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN · Ch. 51. LAND, TIMBER, AND SURFACE RESOURCES · Art. G. EASEMENTS

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(a)Except as provided by Subsection (b), the commissioner may execute grants of easements or other interests in property for rights-of-way or access across, through, and under unsold public school land, the portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of the state, the state-owned riverbeds and beds of navigable streams in the public domain, and all islands, saltwater lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, and reefs owned by the state within tidewater limits for:

(1)telephone, telegraph, electric transmission, and power lines;

(2)oil pipelines, including pipelines connecting the onshore storage facilities with the offshore facilities of a deepwater port, as defined by the federal Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (33 U.S.C.A. Section 1501 et seq.), gas pipelines, sulphur pipelines, and other electric lines and pipelines of any nature;

(3)irrigation canals, laterals, and water pipelines;

(4)roads; and

(5)any other purpose the commissioner considers to be in the best interest of the state.

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Legislative history

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 387 (S.B. 654), Sec. 4, eff. June 15, 2007.