Texas Transportation Code

§ 203.056 — CONSENT TO USE OF STATE PROPERTY

TN § 203.056Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part A. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION · Ch. 203. MODERNIZATION OF STATE HIGHWAYS; CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAYS · Art. D. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY

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(a)The commission may use real property owned by the state, including submerged real property, that the commission could acquire under this subchapter for highway purposes.

(b)This section does not deprive the School Land Board of authority to execute a lease authorized by law for the development of oil, gas, or another mineral on state-owned real property adjoining a state highway or in a tidewater limit and for that purpose a lease executed by the School Land Board may provide for directional drilling from real property adjoining a state highway or from a tidewater area.

Legislative history

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.