Texas Natural Resources Code Title 2, Chapter 11 - Provisions Generally Applicable To The Public Domain
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBCHAPTER B TERRITORY AND BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE
- Texas Section 11.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "State" means the State of Texas. (2) "Land office" means the General Land Office. (3) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the...
- Texas Section 11.011 - Vacant And Unappropriated Land
So that the law relating to the public domain may be brought together, the following extract is taken from the joint resolutions of the Congress...
- Texas Section 11.0111 - Location Of Coastal Boundaries
(a) The commissioner shall: (1) have the area between the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and the Three Marine League line compiled and platted;...
- Texas Section 11.012 - Gulfward Boundary Of Texas
(a) The gulfward boundary of the State of Texas is the boundary determined in and pursuant to the decision of the United States Supreme Court...
- Texas Section 11.013 - Gulfward Boundaries Of Counties, Cities, Towns, Or Villages
(a) The gulfward boundary of each county located on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico is the Three Marine League line as determined by...
- Texas Section 11.0131 - Jurisdiction Of Home-rule Cities Over Submerged Lands
(a) In this section: (1) "Coastline" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.013(c) of this code. (2) "State-owned submerged lands" means the state-owned submerged lands...
- Texas Section 11.014 - Land Acquired From Oklahoma
(a) Land acquired by the state in Oklahoma v. Texas, 272 U.S. 21 (1926) and subsequent orders of the United States Supreme Court relating to...
- Texas Section 11.015 - Extension Of Texas-new Mexico Boundary
(a) The boundary lines of all counties in the Texas Panhandle that border on the New Mexico boundary line are extended by extending the north...
- Texas Section 11.016 - Land Acquired From Mexico In 1933
(a) The State of Texas recognizes the provisions of 54 Stat. 21 (1940) and accepts as part of its territory and assumes civil and criminal...
- Texas Section 11.017 - Chamizal Area
(a) The State of Texas accepts as part of its territory and assumes civil and criminal jurisdiction over the tract of land lying adjacent to...
SUBCHAPTER C SPECIAL FUNDS
- Texas Section 11.018 - Cession Of Certain El Paso Land
(a) To facilitate the project for rectification of the Rio Grande in the El Paso-Juarez Valley under the convention between the United States of America...
- Texas Section 11.041 - Permanent School Fund
(a) In addition to land and minerals granted to the permanent school fund under the constitution and other laws of this state, the permanent school...
- Texas Section 11.042 - Asylum Fund
The 400,000 acres of land set apart for the various asylums in equal portions of 100,000 acres for each by act of the legislature, approved...
SUBCHAPTER D REGULATION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
- Texas Section 11.043 - University Fund
After payment of the amount due to the permanent school fund for proceeds from the sale of the portion of the public land set aside...
- Texas Section 11.071 - Recovery Of Value Of Minerals And Timber
(a) At least semiannually, the commissioner and the county attorney of each county shall report to the attorney general the name and address of each...
- Texas Section 11.072 - Fences With And Without Gates
(a) A person who has used any of the pasture land by joining fences or otherwise and who builds or maintains more than three miles...
- Texas Section 11.073 - Definition Of Fencing
In Sections 11.074 and 11.075 of this code, "fencing" means the erection of any structure of wood, wire, wood and wire, or any other material,...
- Texas Section 11.074 - Herding And Line-riding
(a) No owner of stock, manager, agent, employee, or servant may fence, use, occupy, or appropriate by herding or line-riding any portion of the public...
- Texas Section 11.075 - Appropriation Of Land By Fencing
(a) Unless a lease for the land is obtained, any appropriation of public land of the state or land which belongs to the public schools...
- Texas Section 11.076 - Unlawful Enclosures
(a) If the governor is credibly informed that any portion of the public land or the land which belongs to any of the special land...
- Texas Section 11.077 - Suit Against Adverse Claimant
If any public land is held, occupied, or claimed adversely to the state or to any fund of the state by any person or if...
- Texas Section 11.078 - Venue
A suit brought under the provisions of Section 11.076 or Section 11.077 of this code shall be brought in the county in which the land...
- Texas Section 11.079 - Access To Land
(a) The state, a permittee of the state, or a lessee or assignee of state land or minerals dedicated to the permanent school fund may...
- Texas Section 11.0791 - Other Provisions Regarding Access To State Lands
When a state governmental entity sells state land, the entity shall require that the state have the right of ingress and egress to remaining state...
- Texas Section 11.080 - Damages To Persons And Personalty
When access to any land is obtained by the state under Section 11.079 of this code, the state shall be liable to the property owner...
- Texas Section 11.081 - Rules
The General Land Office of the State of Texas shall promulgate and enforce rules governing the construction, maintenance, and use of roads created by access...
- Texas Section 11.082 - Notice To School Land Board
(a) A state agency or political subdivision may not formally take any action that may affect state land dedicated to the permanent school fund without...
- Texas Section 11.083 - Retention Of Mineral Rights
The state shall retain the mineral rights to state land that is sold unless it is impractical to do so. Added by Acts 1999, 76th...
- Texas Section 11.084 - School Land Board Approval Of Patent For Interest In Land Released By State
(a) The School Land Board may approve a tract of land for patenting to release all or part of the state's interest in land, excluding...
- Texas Section 11.085 - Procedure For Applying For Patent For Interest In Land Released By State
(a) A person claiming title to land may apply for a patent under Section 11.084 by filing with the commissioner an application on a form...
- Texas Section 11.086 - Confidentiality Of Certain Information Related To Purchase, Sale, Or Development Of Real Property
(a) Information relating to the development, location, purchase price, or sale price of real property developed, purchased, or sold by or for the School Land...
Last modified: September 28, 2016