Texas Education Code Title 3, Chapter 85 - Administration Of The Texas A & M University System

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 85.01 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "System" or "university system" means The Texas A&M University System. (2) "Board" means the board of regents of The Texas A&M...
• Texas Section 85.11 - Board Of Regents
  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...
• Texas Section 85.12 - Qualifications; Terms
  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...
• Texas Section 85.13 - Certificate Of Appointment
  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....
• Texas Section 85.14 - Chairman Of Board
  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...
• Texas Section 85.15 - Expenses Of Regents
  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...
• Texas Section 85.16 - Seal
  The board may make and use a common seal. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3192, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.
• Texas Section 85.17 - System Central Administration Office; Executive Officer
  (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)...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD

• Texas Section 85.18 - Mandatory Venue
  (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)...
• Texas Section 85.21 - General Powers And Duties
  (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,...
• Texas Section 85.22 - Expenditures
  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...
• Texas Section 85.23 - Permanent Improvements; Contracts; Land Transactions
  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,...
• Texas Section 85.24 - Utilities
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.25 - Lands And Mineral Interests
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.26 - Leases And Easements; Rights-of-way For Electric Lines, Pipelines, Irrigation Canals, Etc
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.27 - Flood Control Easements
  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...
• Texas Section 85.28 - Airports
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.29 - Research And Experimentation For Texas Department Of Transportation
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.30 - Donations And Trusts
  (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,...
• Texas Section 85.31 - Funds Received For Trust Services
  (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...

SUBCHAPTER D LEASE OF LANDS FOR OIL, GAS, AND OTHER MINERAL DEVELOPMENT

• Texas Section 85.32 - Eminent Domain
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.51 - Authority To Lease
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.52 - Sale Of Mineral Ore In Place
  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...
• Texas Section 85.53 - Tracts, Lots, Blocks
  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...
• Texas Section 85.54 - Placing Leases On Market; Advertising
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.55 - Public Auction; Bids; Acceptance; Rejection; Payments
  (a) The board may sell the lease or leases to the highest bidder at public auction, at Texas A & M University, in College Station,...
• Texas Section 85.56 - Subsequent Procedure If No Bids Accepted
  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...
• Texas Section 85.57 - Withdrawal Of Land Advertised
  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....
• Texas Section 85.58 - Acceptance Of Bids; Award Of Lease
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.59 - Exploratory Term; Extension; Other Provisions Of Lease
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.60 - Discontinuance Of Yearly Payments; Termination For Nonproduction
  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...
• Texas Section 85.61 - Operations Under Lease: Effect On Rental Payments, Term Of Lease
  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...
• Texas Section 85.62 - Proration Or Reduction Of Production
  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...
• Texas Section 85.63 - Interference With Surface Uses
  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...
• Texas Section 85.64 - Protection From Drainage
  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...
• Texas Section 85.65 - Rights Of Purchaser; Assignment; Relinquishment
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.66 - Royalty Payments; Inspection Of Records; Report Of Land Commissioner
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.67 - Forfeiture; Other Remedies; Lien
  (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...
• Texas Section 85.68 - Filing Of Records
  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...
• Texas Section 85.69 - Payments; Disposition
  Payments under this subchapter shall be made to the commissioner of the general land office at Austin, who shall transmit to the board all royalties,...
• Texas Section 85.70 - Certain Mineral Leases; Disposition Of Money; Special Funds; Investment
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), all money received under and by virtue of this subchapter shall be deposited in a special fund managed...
• Texas Section 85.71 - Forms; Contracts; Regulations
  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...

Last modified: September 28, 2016