Texas Natural Resources Code Title 6, Chapter 151 - Provisions Generally Applicable

SUBCHAPTER A BILL OF SALE FOR PURCHASE OF TREES AND TIMBER

• Texas Section 151.001 - Required Bill Of Sale
  Before purchasing or accepting delivery of any trees, timber, logs, pulpwood, or in-woods chips, a seller shall provide and a purchaser shall require a bill...
• Texas Section 151.002 - Information In Bill Of Sale
  (a) The bill of sale, which may be filed of record in the appropriate real property records, shall at a minimum include: (1) the name...
• Texas Section 151.003 - Retention Of Bill Of Sale
  A person that purchases trees, timber, logs, pulpwood, or in-woods chips shall retain the bill of sale for not less than two years following the...
• Texas Section 151.004 - Notice Concerning Sale Or Purchase Of Trees Or Timber
  At each designated point of delivery for trees, timber, logs, pulpwood, or in-woods chips, a wood yard, transfer yard, mill site, or storage yard shall...
• Texas Section 151.005 - Penalty
  (a) A seller or purchaser who knowingly fails to provide, obtain, or retain a bill of sale as required by Sections 151.001, 151.002, and 151.003...
• Texas Section 151.006 - Applicability
  This subchapter does not apply to the sale of: (1) finished wood products; (2) logs or pulpwood from a wood yard, transfer yard, mill site,...
• Texas Section 151.007 - Penalties Cumulative
  A penalty provided by this subchapter is in addition to a penalty provided under other law. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 532, Sec....

SUBCHAPTER B UNAUTHORIZED HARVESTING OF TIMBER

• Texas Section 151.008 - Civil Liability
  Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to affect the liability under any other statute or under common law, provided that failure to comply with...
• Texas Section 151.051 - Damages For Unauthorized Harvesting
  (a) A person who harvests standing timber with knowledge that the harvesting is without the permission of the owner of the standing timber and a...

SUBCHAPTER C PAYMENT FOR TIMBER PURCHASED

• Texas Section 151.052 - Criminal Offense
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) harvests standing timber with knowledge that the harvesting is without the permission of the owner...
• Texas Section 151.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "timber purchaser" means a person who purchases standing timber for harvest. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 562, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 151.102 - Money Collected For Timber As Trust Money
  Money a timber purchaser collects for harvested timber is trust money. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 562, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997....
• Texas Section 151.103 - Timber Purchaser As Trustee
  A timber purchaser and each officer, director, partner, or agent of a timber purchaser are trustees of trust money. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 151.104 - Beneficiary Of Trust
  Each seller of standing timber is a beneficiary of trust money to the extent of the beneficiary's share of the purchase price for the timber....
• Texas Section 151.105 - Offense
  (a) A trustee commits an offense if the trustee, knowingly or with intent to defraud, directly or indirectly retains, uses, disperses, or otherwise diverts more...
• Texas Section 151.106 - Defenses To Prosecution
  It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that: (1) the trustee paid the beneficiaries all trust money to which the beneficiaries were...
• Texas Section 151.107 - Election Of Offenses
  If conduct constituting an offense under Section 151.105 is an offense under another law of this state, the state may elect the offense for which...

Last modified: September 28, 2016