Texas Natural Resources Code Title 9, Chapter 191 - Antiquities Code

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 191.001 - Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Antiquities Code of Texas. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2683, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 191.002 - Declaration Of Public Policy
  It is the public policy and in the public interest of the State of Texas to locate, protect, and preserve all sites, objects, buildings, pre-twentieth...
• Texas Section 191.003 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Committee" means the Texas Historical Commission. (2) "Landmark" means a state archeological landmark. (3) "State agency" means a department, commission, board,...

SUBCHAPTER B ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 191.004 - Certain Records Not Public Information
  (a) Information specifying the location of any site or item declared to be a state archeological landmark under Subchapter D of this chapter is not...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 191.021 - Compliance With Open Meetings Act And Administrative Procedure And Texas Register Act
  (a) Repealed by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 109, Sec. 29, eff. Aug. 30, 1995. (b) If an institution of higher education notifies the committee...
• Texas Section 191.051 - In General
  (a) The committee is the legal custodian of all items described in this chapter that have been recovered and retained by the State of Texas....
• Texas Section 191.052 - Rules
  The committee may promulgate rules and require contract or permit conditions to reasonably effect the purposes of this chapter. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2685,...
• Texas Section 191.0525 - Notice Required
  (a) Before breaking ground at a project location on state or local public land, the person primarily responsible for the project or the person's agent...
• Texas Section 191.053 - Contract For Discovery And Scientific Investigation
  (a) The committee may contract with other state agencies or political subdivisions and with qualified private institutions, corporations, or individuals for the discovery and scientific...
• Texas Section 191.054 - Permit For Survey And Discovery, Excavation, Restoration, Demolition, Or Study
  (a) The committee may issue a permit to other state agencies or political subdivisions or to qualified private institutions, companies, or individuals for the survey...
• Texas Section 191.055 - Supervision
  All scientific investigations or recovery operations conducted under the contract provisions in Section 191.053 of this code and all operations conducted under permits or contracts...
• Texas Section 191.056 - Acceptance Of Gifts
  The committee may accept gifts, grants, devises, or bequests of money, securities, or property to be used in the pursuance of its activities and the...
• Texas Section 191.057 - Survey, Excavation, Or Restoration For Private Parties
  The committee may survey, excavate, or restore antiquities for private parties under rules promulgated by the committee. All real and administrative costs incurred in the...
• Texas Section 191.058 - Curation Of Artifacts
  (a) As far as is consistent with the public policy of this chapter, the committee, on a majority vote, may arrange or contract with other...

SUBCHAPTER D STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL LANDMARKS

• Texas Section 191.059 - Complaints
  (a) The committee shall keep an information file about each complaint filed with the committee. (b) If a written complaint is filed with the committee,...
• Texas Section 191.091 - Ships, Wrecks Of The Sea, And Treasure Imbedded In Earth
  Sunken or abandoned pre-twentieth century ships and wrecks of the sea, and any part or the contents of them, and all treasure imbedded in the...
• Texas Section 191.092 - Other Sites, Artifacts, Or Articles
  (a) Sites, objects, buildings, artifacts, implements, and locations of historical, archeological, scientific, or educational interest, including those pertaining to prehistoric and historical American Indians or...
• Texas Section 191.093 - Prerequisites To Removal, Altering, Damaging, Destroying, Salvaging, Or Excavating Certain Landmarks
  Landmarks under Section 191.091 or 191.092 of this code are the sole property of the State of Texas and may not be removed, altered, damaged,...
• Texas Section 191.094 - Designating A Landmark On Private Land
  (a) Any site located on private land which is determined by majority vote of the committee to be of sufficient archeological, scientific, or historical significance...
• Texas Section 191.095 - Permit For Landmark On Private Land
  All sites or items of archeological, scientific, or historical interest located on private land in the State of Texas in areas designated as landmarks, as...
• Texas Section 191.096 - Marking Landmark On Private Land
  Any site on private land which is designated a landmark shall be marked by at least one marker bearing the words "State Archeological Landmark". Acts...
• Texas Section 191.097 - Removing Designation As Landmark
  (a) Any landmark on public or private land may be determined by majority vote of the committee to be of no further historical, archeological, educational,...

SUBCHAPTER E PROHIBITIONS

• Texas Section 191.098 - Notification Of Alteration Or Demolition Of Possible Landmark
  (a) A state agency may not alter, renovate, or demolish a building possessed by the state that was constructed at least 50 years before the...
• Texas Section 191.131 - Contract Or Permit Requirement
  (a) No person, firm, or corporation may conduct a salvage or recovery operation without first obtaining a contract. (b) No person, firm, or corporation may...
• Texas Section 191.132 - Damage Or Destruction
  (a) No person may intentionally and knowingly deface American Indian or aboriginal paintings, hieroglyphics, or other marks or carvings on rock or elsewhere that pertain...

SUBCHAPTER F ENFORCEMENT

• Texas Section 191.133 - Entry Without Consent
  No person who is not the owner, and does not have the consent of the owner, proprietor, lessee, or person in charge, may enter or...
• Texas Section 191.171 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine...
• Texas Section 191.172 - Civil Action By Attorney General
  (a) In addition to, and without limiting the other powers of the attorney general, and without altering or waiving any criminal penalty provided in this...
• Texas Section 191.173 - Civil Action By Citizen
  (a) A citizen of the State of Texas may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction for restraining orders and injunctive relief to...
• Texas Section 191.174 - Assistance From State Agencies, Political Subdivisions, And Law Enforcement Officers
  (a) The chief administrative officers of all state agencies and political subdivisions are directed to cooperate and assist the committee and the attorney general in...

Last modified: September 28, 2016