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Texas Natural Resources Code - NAT RES § 33.234. Duties and Authority of Acquiring Agency

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The acquiring agency shall do the following:

(1) accept gifts, grants, or devises of interests in land;

(2) acquire, by purchase or condemnation, fee and lesser interests in the surface estate in coastal wetland certified as most essential to protection of the public interest, provided that in each instance in which an interest in land is acquired by the acquiring agency pursuant to this section, a sufficient interest shall be acquired to preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of such land as coastal wetland;  and

(3) manage interests in land acquired pursuant to this section in a manner that will preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland.

(b) This subchapter shall not be construed to authorize the condemnation of any interest in the mineral estate in any coastal wetland.

(c) The acquiring agency shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations necessary to preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland acquired pursuant to this subchapter.  The rules and regulations shall include regulations governing activities conducted on the land in conjunction with mineral exploration, development, and production.

(d) If the acquiring agency seeks to condemn an interest less than the fee interest in the surface estate in any coastal wetland, the owner of the coastal wetland may demand that the acquiring agency instead seek condemnation of the fee interest in the surface estate in the coastal wetland.  Upon this demand, the acquiring agency shall either:

(1) seek to condemn the fee interest in the surface estate in the coastal wetland;  or

(2) cease all condemnation proceedings pursuant to this subchapter against the coastal wetland.

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