Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 53.061 - Authority to Lease Certain Minerals(a) The state constitutes the owner of the surface its agent to lease to any person any mineral, except oil and gas, which may be within all or part of a survey previously sold with all minerals reserved to the state.(b) The lease shall be made on terms and conditions that may be prescribed by the school land board.Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 53.061
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 1061, Sec. 6, eff. 8/31/1987. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2471, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1977.