Texas Natural Resources Code

§ 89.084 — MONEY PAID COMMISSION BY PRIVATE PERSON

NR § 89.084Title 3. OIL AND GAS · Part B. CONSERVATION AND REGULATION OF OIL AND GAS · Ch. 89. ABANDONED WELLS · Art. D. COSTS OF PLUGGING WELLS

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(a)The commission may accept money from private persons and use the money to plug or replug a well.

(b)Paying money to the commission is not an admission that the person paying the money is obligated to plug or replug the well. Evidence that a person has paid money to the commission is not admissible against the person in a suit in which the person's obligation to plug a well is an issue and introducing the evidence is a compulsory ground for mistrial.

Legislative history

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2555, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.