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Texas Education Code - Chapter 85 Administration Of The Texas A &Amp; M University SystemLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Education Code > Texas Education Code - Chapter 85 Administration Of The Texas A &Amp; M University System In this chapter: (1) "System" or "university system" means The Texas A & M University System. (2) "Board" means the board of regents of The ... The government of the university system is vested in a board of nine regents appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the ... Each member of the board shall be a qualified voter; and the members shall be selected from different portions of the state. The members hold ... The secretary of state shall forward a certificate to each regent within 10 days after his appointment, notifying him of the fact of his appointment. ... The board shall elect from its members a chairman of the board, who shall call the board together for the transaction of business whenever he ... The regents shall serve without compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for actual expenses incurred in attending board meetings and in transacting the official business ... The board may make and use a common seal. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3192, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. ... (a) The central administration office of the university system shall provide oversight and coordination of the activities of each component institution within the system. (b) ... (a) Venue for a suit filed against the board or a member of the board in the member's official capacity is in Brazos County. (b) ... (a) The board shall make bylaws, rules, and regulations it deems necessary and proper for the government of the university system and its institutions, agencies, ... All expenditures may be made by order of the board and shall be paid on warrants from the comptroller based on vouchers approved by the ... The board may enter into an agreement with any person for the purchase, sale, lease, lease-purchase, acquisition, or construction of permanent improvements and may purchase, ... (a) The board from time to time may improve and equip existing central power plants and may construct, acquire, improve, and equip steam plants and ... (a) The board is vested with the sole and exclusive management and control of lands and mineral interests under its jurisdiction and that may be ... (a) The board may execute leases and grant easements for rights-of-way for telephone, telegraph, electric transmission, and power lines, for oil pipelines, gas pipelines, sulphur ... The board may convey flood control easements over land under its jurisdiction and control to water control and improvement districts of this state. No flood ... (a) The board may construct or otherwise acquire an airport for any institution within the system. It may maintain and operate the airports in connection ... (a) The department may contract with the university system or a component or agency of the university system to conduct research relating to transportation, including ... (a) Donations of property may be made and accepted by the board for the purpose of establishing or assisting in the establishment of a professorship, ... (a) The board may at its discretion charge administrative fees for services rendered in the management and administration of any trust estate under the control ... (a) The board may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire any real property that the board considers necessary and proper to carry out ... (a) The board may lease for oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, and other mineral developments all lands and mineral interests under its control, owned or ... Mineral ore located in and on the land may also be sold in place by the board at not less than the fair market value ... The board may cause the lands to be surveyed or subdivided into tracts, lots, or blocks that will, in its judgment, be most conducive and ... (a) Whenever, in the opinion of the board, there is a demand for the purchase of oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, or other mineral leases ... (a) The board may sell the lease or leases to the highest bidder at public auction, at Texas A & M University, in College Station, ... If no bid is accepted by the board at the public auction, any subsequent procedure for the sale of oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, and ... The board may withdraw any lands advertised for lease or for the sale of mineral ore in place. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3197, ch. ... (a) If in the opinion of the board any one of the bidders has offered a reasonable and proper price for any tract and not ... (a) The exploratory term of the lease as determined by the board prior to the promulgation of the advertisement shall in no case exceed five ... When the royalties amount to as much as the yearly payments as fixed by the board, the yearly payments may be discontinued. If before the ... If, during the term of any lease issued under the provisions of this subchapter, the lessee is engaged in actual drilling and mining operations for ... When, in the discretion of the board, it is for the best interest of the state to prorate or reduce production of any land, the ... No lease for oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, and other minerals shall be made by the board which will permit the drilling or mining for ... In every case where the area in which oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, and other minerals sold shall be contiguous or adjacent to lands which ... (a) Title to all rights purchased may be held by the owners as long as the area produces oil, gas, sulphur, mineral ore, and other ... (a) If oil or other minerals are developed on any of the lands leased by the board, the royalty or money as stipulated in the ... (a) If the owner of the rights acquired under this subchapter fails or refuses to make the payment of any sum due thereon, either as ... All surveys, files, records, copies of sale and lease contracts, and all other records pertaining to the sales and leases hereby authorized, shall be filed ... Payments under this subchapter shall be made to the commissioner of the general land office at Austin, who shall transmit to the comptroller all royalties, ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, all money received under and by virtue of this subchapter shall be deposited in the ... The board shall adopt forms and contracts and shall promulgate rules and regulations that in its best judgment will protect the income from lands leased ... The expenses of executing the provisions of this subchapter shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on the state treasury against the income ... Texas Lawyers
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