Texas Natural Resources Code

§ 61.0171 — TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF LINE OF VEGETATION DETERMINATION

NR § 61.0171Title 2. PUBLIC DOMAIN · Part E. BEACHES AND DUNES · Ch. 61. USE AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BEACHES · Art. B. ACCESS TO PUBLIC BEACHES

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(a)The commissioner may, by order, suspend action on conducting a line of vegetation determination for a period of up to three years from the date the order is issued if the commissioner determines that the line of vegetation was obliterated as a result of a meteorological event. For the duration of the order, the public beach shall extend to a line 200 feet inland from the line of mean low tide as established by a licensed state land surveyor.

(b)An order issued under this section shall be:

(1)posted on the land office's Internet website;

(2)published by the land office as a miscellaneous document in the Texas Register; and

(3)filed for record by the land office in the real property records of the county in which the area of beach subject to the order is located.

(c)Issuance of an order under this section is purely within the discretion of the commissioner. This section does not create:

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1086 (H.B. 3459), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2013.