Texas Natural Resources Code

§ 33.232 — POLICY

NR § 33.232Title 2. PUBLIC DOMAIN · Part C. ADMINISTRATION · Ch. 33. MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL PUBLIC LAND · Art. G. COASTAL WETLAND ACQUISITION

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It is the declared policy of the state:

(1)to protect the property rights of those who sell interests in land to the state by fairly compensating the sellers;

(2)to protect that coastal wetland which is most essential to the public interest by acquiring fee and lesser interests in the coastal wetland and managing it in a manner that will preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland; and

(3)to assure that the state does not expend funds to acquire any coastal wetland to which it already holds a valid title at the time of the expenditure.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1993, ch. 785, Sec. 2, eff. June 13, 1979.