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2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5330a. Regulating Sale and Patenting of Lands Formerly Part of Oklahoma; Special Land Board Abolished; Powers and Duties of General Land Office › Section 4. Sale to Lien Holder

Sec. 4. SALE TO LIEN HOLDER.  In event the claimant fails or refuses to purchase same or to apply for a patent as provided for herein, then the holder of a lien against any of said lands may make such purchase or apply for such patent on behalf of said owner and pay the consideration provided for, and all fees and expenses, and such amounts when paid by such lien holder shall be added to and become a part of the total amount secured by the lien.  A failure on the part of the said owner to make purchase, or application for patent, for a period of four months after the last publication by said Land Board as provided in this Act shall constitute such failure to apply as will warrant the lien holder in making such application to purchase.  The patent issued upon application and purchase of a lien holder shall be in the name of the person, persons or company who would have owned said lands had the same been a part of Oklahoma.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5330a. Regulating Sale and Patenting of Lands Formerly Part of Oklahoma; Special Land Board Abolished; Powers and Duties of General Land Office › Section 5. Recording Deeds, Mortgages, Etc

Sec. 5. RECORDING DEEDS, MORTGAGES, ETC.;  EVIDENCE;  FORCE AND EFFECT.  All deeds, mortgages, contracts and instruments of every nature, or in case of loss of any such instrument a certified copy from the record in the Oklahoma County may be so used, affecting the title to said lands, or that would have formed a part of the chain of title to the same under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, and now of record on the public records of the State of Oklahoma, may be filed and recorded in the county in Texas in which the land is now located.  All deeds, mortgages, conveyances and all other instruments which would be valid under the laws of the State of Oklahoma and admissible in evidence under the laws of said State, shall be valid in Texas and shall be admissible in evidence in any court in this State, and copies of said instruments certified as provided by the laws of Oklahoma, as well as the originals thereof, may be introduced in evidence in the same manner as if executed with the formalities required by the laws of the State of Texas, and as if certified as required by the laws of this State.  All such deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, conveyances and contracts, affecting the title to any of said lands shall be given the same force and effect in the State of Texas as same would have been given in the State of Oklahoma, and all bona fide liens, incumbrances, or debentures, now outstanding and unsatisfied, and existing against said lands at the time of the rendition of said decision of the Supreme Court of the United States are here expressly validated, save and except as to purchase money due to the State of Oklahoma, or the United States, and except taxes, general or special, due to the State of Oklahoma, or any city, county, school district or other political subdivision of the State of Oklahoma.  In determining whether any lien against said land shall be enforced, the period of time intervening between the rendition of the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States and the issuance of a patent to the land involved by the State of Texas, shall not be computed in applying the Statutes of Limitation of either the State of Oklahoma or the State of Texas, and this Act shall be liberally construed in the enforcement of liens against said land, it being the intention of the Legislature that all sections and parts hereof are independent of each other, and if any section or part hereof be held unconstitutional such invalid section shall not affect the remaining sections or parts hereof.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5330a. Regulating Sale and Patenting of Lands Formerly Part of Oklahoma; Special Land Board Abolished; Powers and Duties of General Land Office › Section 6. Deposit and Use of Fees

Sec. 6. DEPOSIT AND USE OF FEES.  The examination fees provided for in Section 3 of this Act shall be deposited with the Comptroller in a special fund to the credit of the Land Board created in Section 2 hereof.  All such moneys so paid into the State Treasury are hereby specifically appropriated to said Land Board for the purpose of defraying the authorized and necessary expenses incident to the enforcement of this Act incurred by said Board in determining the identity of persons entitled to the benefits of this Act.  The Comptroller shall, from time to time, upon requisition of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, draw warrants upon the State Treasury for the amounts specified in such requisition, not exceeding, however, the amount of such fund on deposit at the time of the making of any requisition therefor.  Any sum remaining in such fund after all expenses have been paid shall be transferred to the Permanent School Fund.  The amount of money accruing to the State of Texas as consideration for the sale of the land as provided for in Section 3 hereof shall be placed to the credit of the Permanent School Fund.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5330a. Regulating Sale and Patenting of Lands Formerly Part of Oklahoma; Special Land Board Abolished; Powers and Duties of General Land Office › Section 7. Determination by Board; Proclamation; Time for Application

Sec. 7. DETERMINATION BY BOARD;  PROCLAMATION;  TIME FOR APPLICATION.  The Land Board, upon the passage of this Act, is authorized to determine when such lands are available for purchase, and said Board shall by proper proclamation give notice to all persons desiring to file an application to purchase said land, by causing such proclamation to be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in each county in which any part of said lands may be located, and by filing a copy of such proclamation with the County Clerk of each such county.  Applications to purchase such lands shall be filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office within four months from and after the last publication, and if said claims are not filed within said time an additional filing fee of Ten (10¢) Cents per acre shall be required.  No land shall be patented or sold under the provisions of this Act unless claimed and applied for within twelve months after the publication of said proclamation, and the proclamation shall so state.
Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 311, ch. 185.  Amended by Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 242, ch. 170, Sec. 1;  Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 298, ch. 177, Sec. 1.
Sec. 6 amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 21.54, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5330b. Sale of Public Lands Along Western Oklahoma and Eastern Texas Boundary Authorized

From and after the effective date of this Act all public lands in this State situate along the western boundary of the State of Oklahoma and the eastern boundary of the State of Texas and along the 100th degree of west longitude, found to be in the State of Texas by final decree of the Supreme Court of the United States entered March 17, 1930, in the case of the State of Oklahoma vs. the State of Texas, the United States of America, intervenor, theretofore claimed by Oklahoma but now located in Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth and Childress Counties, are to be offered for sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 5330A, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas Acts 1931, Forty-second Legislature, Page 311, Chapter 185.
Acts 1939, 46th Leg., p. 478, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5337-2. Execution in Favor of Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No › Section 1.

Sec. 1. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized and empowered, acting for and on behalf of the State of Texas, to execute any and all grants of easements in, on, and across all unsold Public Free School Lands, and in, on, and across all islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, and reefs owned by the state within the tidewater limits, and in, on, and across that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, to Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 for right-of-ways for pipe lines and for the installation of all works, facilities, and appliances, in any and all manners incident to, helpful or necessary for securing, storing, processing, treating, transporting, and selling an adequate supply of fresh water;  provided, however, said Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 shall pay the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) as consideration for the granting of each easement.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5337-2. Execution in Favor of Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office may grant the easements provided in Section 1 hereof for such term and shall cover only such area which in the judgment of the Commissioner may be required to carry out the purposes for which said District was created, and, if he deems it necessary, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may grant such easements perpetually.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5337-2. Execution in Favor of Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No › Section 3.

Sec. 3. During the existence of the easements authorized and granted pursuant hereto the officers and employees, contractors and sub-contractors of the Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 are hereby authorized to go in and upon the lands described herein to construct such pipe lines and to install all works, facilities, appliances, and to repair and to remove same from time to time.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 3 - Surface and Timber Rights › Article 5337-2. Execution in Favor of Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No › Section 6.

Sec. 6. The powers and authority herein conferred and vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall be cumulative of all powers and authority heretofore and hereafter vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office under the Constitution and laws of this state.
Acts 1959, 56th Leg., p. 688, ch. 314.
Sec. 5 amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 328, Sec. 10, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5341d. Extension of Leases on University Land; War Agency Restrictions › Section 1.

Sec. 1. In the case of any non-producing oil, gas or mineral lease on University land, if one hundred twenty (120) days before expiration of the primary term there be in effect any restrictions issued by a Federal war agency prohibiting the drilling or completion of a well thereon, the holder of such lease shall have the right to negotiate an extension or renewal of such lease for a period of not longer than two (2) years with the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in considering an application for an extension or renewal of any such lease above described, shall take into consideration in establishing the consideration for such lease the diligence with which the lessee has followed his duties under the existing lease, the present value of the land upon which an extension or renewal of the lease is sought, and all other good business practices.  The lessee in presenting his application for extension or renewal of such lease or leases shall present evidence to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and to the Commissioner of the General Land Office showing it was impossible for him or any of his co-owners to comply with the restrictions which he claims prohibited the drilling or completion of the well on said tract.
If the lessee should claim as grounds for an extension or renewal of any such lease that there is insufficient acreage within the tract under lease by him to comply with the Federal restriction then no extension or renewal shall be granted unless said lessee also show that there is no adjacent and adjoining acreage to said tract wherein said applicant is a party in interest that could have been combined with the tract upon which the application for extension or renewal is made in order to comply with the Federal restriction.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5341d. Extension of Leases on University Land; War Agency Restrictions › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue to the lease owner such instrument in writing in the nature of an extension or renewal of such lease as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the foregoing provision of this Act.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5341d. Extension of Leases on University Land; War Agency Restrictions › Section 3.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this Act are and shall be held and construed to be cumulative of all General Laws of this state on the subject treated of and embraced in this Act when not in conflict herewith, but in case of conflict, in whole or in part, this Act shall control.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5341d. Extension of Leases on University Land; War Agency Restrictions › Section 4.

Sec. 4. If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, or clause of this Act be held to be unconstitutional, the remaining portions of same shall nevertheless be held valid and binding.
Acts 1943, 48th Leg., p. 359, ch. 238.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5341e. Suspension of Running of Terms of Leases While Owner Is Denied Access by United States

If the owner of any valid oil and gas lease granted by the State covering University lands is denied access to or is denied a permit to drill upon or produce from the leased premises by any duly constituted authority of the United States of America, after a bona fide attempt has been made by such owner to obtain access or permit to drill upon or produce from the leased premises, and denial of access as used herein shall include agreements by the lessee or his assigns under any such lease with a duly constituted authority of the United States not to enter upon and engage in drilling operations on any such oil and gas lease made under compulsion or threat of condemnation by such duly constituted authority of the United States, such owner may file with the Board for Lease of University Lands an application describing and giving the date of the action which deprives him of the right of access or the right to drill upon or produce from the premises, and if said Board is satisfied that the facts set forth in the application are true, the Board may enter an order upon its minutes suspending the running of both the primary and the principal term of such lease, or suspending any condition, obligation, or duty thereunder as of the date of the origin of the cause of suspension and during the existence of the cause of suspension, so long as the lessee continues to make on each anniversary date of such lease the annual rental payments stipulated in the lease during the period of suspension.  Such oil and gas lease shall remain in status quo, and all obligations and conditions existing during such lease or such of them as may be suspended by said Board, shall be inoperative and of no force and effect, except the obligation to pay delay rentals as provided for herein, until ninety (90) days after the Board for Lease of University Lands shall enter an order upon its minutes reciting that the cause for suspension has ceased to exist, at which time such oil and gas lease shall, provided the rental payments have been made during the period of suspension, again become operative and all of the suspended obligations and conditions, including the payment of rentals under same, shall again attach and be in force, and in the case of the suspension of the primary and/or principal terms of the lease, the lease shall thereafter continue in force for a period equivalent to the unexpired term of the lease on the date or origin of the cause for suspension.  The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall give notice immediately to the lessee of the entry of the order that the cause for suspension has ceased to exist;  provided, however, that the annual rental payments have been met.
Acts 1945, 49th Leg., p. 300, ch. 217, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 4 - Oil and Gas › Article 5366a. Extension of Oil and Gas Leases on Areas Covered by Coastal Waters or Within Gulf › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue to the lessee or owner of said lease such instrument in writing in the nature of an extension of said lease as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the foregoing provisions of this Act.
Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 456, ch. 287.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a. Validating Patents on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 1.

Sec. 1. All patents to and awards of lands lying across or partly across water courses or navigable streams and all patents and awards covering or including the beds or abandoned beds of water courses or navigable streams or parts thereof, which patents or awards have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof and have not been cancelled or forfeited, are hereby confirmed and validated.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a. Validating Patents on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The State of Texas hereby relinquishes, quit-claims and grants to patentees and awardees and their assignees all of the lands, and minerals therein contained, lying across, or partly across watercourses or navigable streams, which lands are included in surveys heretofore made, and to which lands patents or awards have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof and have not been cancelled or forfeited, and the State of Texas hereby relinquishes, quit-claims and grants to patentees and awardees and their assignees all of the beds, and minerals therein contained, or water courses or navigable streams, and also all of the abandoned beds, and minerals therein contained, of water courses or navigable streams, which beds or abandoned beds or parts thereof are included in surveys heretofore made, and to which beds or abandoned beds, or parts thereof, patents or awards have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof, and have not been cancelled or forfeited;  provided that nothing in this Act contained shall impair the rights of the general public and the State in the waters of streams or the rights of riparian and appropriation owners in the waters of such streams, and provided further that with respect to lands sold by the State of Texas expressly reserving title to minerals in the State, such reservation shall not be affected by this Act;  nor shall relinquish or quit-claim any number of acres of land in excess of the number of acres of land conveyed to said patentee or awardees in the original patents granted by the State, but the patentees or awardees and their assignees shall have the same rights, title and interest in the minerals in the beds or abandoned beds, or parts thereof, of such water courses or navigable streams, that they have in the uplands covered by the same patent or award;  provided that this Act shall not in any way affect the State's title, right or interests in and to the sand and gravel, lying within the bed of any navigable stream within this State, as defined by Article 5302, Revised Statutes of 1925.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a. Validating Patents on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 3.

Sec. 3. All of the provisions of this Act shall apply equally to all Spanish and Mexican land grants and titles issued by the Spanish or Mexican Governments prior to the Texas Revolution of 1836, which have subsequently been recognized by the Republic of Texas, or by the State of Texas as valid.
Acts 1929, 41st Leg., p. 298, ch. 138.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a-1. Validating Deeds of Acquittance on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 1.

Sec. 1. All deeds of acquittance to lands lying across or partly across water courses or navigable streams and all deeds of acquittance covering or including the beds or abandoned beds of water courses or navigable streams or parts thereof, which deeds of acquittance have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof and have not been cancelled or forfeited, are hereby confirmed and validated.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a-1. Validating Deeds of Acquittance on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The State of Texas hereby relinquishes, quit claims and grants to grantees and their assignees all of the lands, and minerals therein contained, lying across, or partly across water courses or navigable streams, which lands are included in surveys heretofore made, and to which lands deeds of acquittance have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof and have not been cancelled or forfeited;  and the State of Texas hereby relinquishes, quit claims and grants to grantees and their assignees all of the beds, and minerals therein contained, of water courses or navigable streams and also all of the abandoned beds, and minerals therein contained, of water courses or navigable streams, which beds or abandoned beds or parts thereof are included in surveys heretofore made, and to which beds or abandoned beds, or parts thereof, deeds of acquittance have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten years from the date thereof, and have not been cancelled or forfeited;  provided that nothing in this Act contained shall impair the rights of the general public and the State in the waters of streams or the rights of riparian and appropriation owners in the waters of such streams;  and provided further, that with respect to lands sold by the State of Texas expressly reserving title to minerals in the State, such reservation shall not be affected by this Act;  nor shall the State of Texas relinquish or quit claim any number of acres of land in excess of the number of acres of land conveyed to said grantees in the deeds of acquittance granted by the State, but the grantees and their assignees shall have the same rights, title and interest in the minerals in the beds or abandoned beds, or parts thereof, of such water courses or navigable streams, that they have in the uplands covered by the same deed of acquittance;  provided that this Act shall not in anyway affect the State's title, right or interest in and to the sand and gravel lying within the bed of any navigable stream within this State, as defined by Article 5302, Revised Statutes of 1925.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a-1. Validating Deeds of Acquittance on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 3.

Sec. 3. All of the provisions of this Act shall apply equally to all Spanish and Mexican land grants and titles issued by the Spanish or Mexican governments prior to the Texas Revolution of 1836, which have subsequently been recognized by the Republic of Texas, or by the State of Texas, as valid.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414a-1. Validating Deeds of Acquittance on Lands Lying Across or Partly Across Water Courses or Navigable Streams › Section 4.

Sec. 4. No provision of this Act shall affect the rights of any parties involved in pending litigation at the effective date of this Act.  The provisions of this Act are and shall be held and construed to be cumulative of all laws of this State on the subject treated of and embraced in this Act.  All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.  If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence or clause of this Act shall be held to be unconstitutional, the remaining portions of this Act shall nevertheless be held valid and binding.
Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 660, ch. 232.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 6 - Patents › Article 5414c. Effect of Judgment in Action to Recover Abandoned Land Titled Before Adoption of Common Law

That in any case where any land in the State of Texas was titled prior to the adoption of the Common Law on March 20, 1840, and there has been a judicial finding that the original grantee of said land abandoned said land prior to the adoption of the Common Law, and the State of Texas has at any time instituted suit for the recovery of said land, resulting in a final judgment adverse to the State of Texas whether on demurrer, exception, or a jury finding of fact, it shall be conclusively presumed that those now claiming said land under conveyance from, or judgment against, the original grantee or his heirs, are vested with all title to said land which was vested in said original grantee by virtue of any patent or title from the sovereignty of the soil to him.
Acts 1933, 43rd Leg., p. 398, ch. 156.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5415e-4. Dredge Materials Act › Section 2. Policy

Sec. 2. POLICY.    (a)  It is the declared policy of the state to seek, to the fullest extent permissible under all applicable federal law or laws, the delegation to the state of the authority which the corps of engineers exercises under Section 404, as defined in this Act, over the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the State of Texas.
(b) It is the declared policy of the state that the state should not duplicate the exercise of such authority by the corps of engineers, but should instead exercise such authority in lieu of the corps of engineers, so that no permit application is subject to duplicate levels of regulation.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5415e-4. Dredge Materials Act › Section 3. Definitions

Sec. 3. DEFINITIONS.  As used in this Act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Agency" means the Texas Water Quality Board.
(b) "Agreement" means a written agreement or contract between the State of Texas and the United States, authorizing the State of Texas, through (name of an existing agency), to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state under the authority granted by Section 404, as defined in this Act.
(c) "Corps of engineers" means the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(d) "Discharge of dredged or fill material" has the same meaning as it has in Section 404 as defined in this Act.
(e) "Navigable waters" has the same meaning within the boundaries of the State of Texas as it has in Section 404 as defined in this Act.
(f) "Section 404" means Section 404, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (33 U.S.C. Section 1344), as it may be amended, and such regulations as may be from time to time promulgated thereunder.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5415e-4. Dredge Materials Act › Section 4. Limitations

Sec. 4. LIMITATIONS.    (a)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any state agency or political subdivision to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state in any manner different from or inconsistent with the requirements of Section 404.
(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any state agency or political subdivision to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state:
(1) by the corps of engineers;
(2) by persons operating under contract with the corps of engineers;
(3) when the corps of engineers certifies that such discharge is incidental to a project undertaken by the corps of engineers or persons operating under contract with the corps of engineers, and that such incidental discharge was announced and reviewed at the same time and under the same conditions as such project;  or
(4) by cities which own and operate deepwater port facilities, or by navigation districts or port authorities, or by persons operating under contract with such cities, navigation districts, or port authorities, when such discharges are part of or incidental to a navigation project to be paid for with public funds or when such navigation project is to be owned by such cities, navigation districts, or ports.
(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any state agency or political subdivision to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state in any manner unless and until an agreement as described in this Act is validly entered into and in effect.
(d) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any state agency or political subdivision to exercise any authority under this Act except in accordance with an executive order of the governor.
(e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing any state agency or political subdivision to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state in any manner different from, or inconsistent with, the agreement described in this Act.
(f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting any application for a permit from the corps of engineers to discharge dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state if such application is received by the corps of engineers or postmarked before the effective date of the agreement described in this Act.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5415e-4. Dredge Materials Act › Section 5. Agreement

Sec. 5. AGREEMENT.    (a)  The governor is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement on behalf of the State of Texas, with the United States, acting through its authorized officials, under the terms of which the agency will regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in the navigable waters of the state.
(b) The governor is expressly authorized to include whatever terms and conditions in such agreement he may deem to be in the best interest of the state, including provisions regarding the termination of such agreement.
(c) The authority of the governor under the Act to enter into such an agreement shall not be delegated.
(d) The legislature expressly finds that the provisions of this section are necessary to enable the governor to carry out his responsibilities under this Act.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5415e-4. Dredge Materials Act › Section 6. Not Severable

Sec. 6. NOT SEVERABLE.  The provisions of this Act are expressly declared not to be severable, and if any provision of this Act shall be found to be invalid, the entire Act shall be null and void and of no further force or effect.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1906, ch. 759, eff. Aug. 29, 1977.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421b. Withdrawal From Market of Lands Adjacent to Caddo Lake › Section 1.

Sec. 1. All public land lying beneath or adjacent to the waters of Caddo Lake in Marion, Harrison and adjoining counties, and all such public lands heretofore sold by the State that may hereafter revert to the State and become a part of the public domain, be and the same is hereby withdrawn from the market and the title thereto shall remain in the State of Texas to be enjoyed by the public for fishing and hunting and for State park purposes as may hereafter be provided by Law;  and the Land Commissioners  is hereby directed to offer no portion of said land for sale nor to receive any bids therefor.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421b. Withdrawal From Market of Lands Adjacent to Caddo Lake › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office may lease any or all of said land for mineral purposes, as now provided by Law, but before the same shall be leased it shall be advertised in some newspaper published at Marshall or Jefferson Texas, stating what land is to be leased and the prices offered therefor;  and such advertisement shall invite other and additional bids thereon, and the lease shall only be made to the highest bidder.
Acts 1929, 41st Leg., p. 430, ch. 198.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421b-1. Leasing for Minerals of Lands Under and Adjacent to Caddo Lake and Tributaries › Section 1.

Sec. 1. All or any part of the Public Lands belonging to the State situated in and under the bed of Caddo Lake and the tributaries thereto and all or any part of such lands adjacent thereto shall be subject to lease for mineral development by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to any person, firm or corporation in accordance with the provisions of existing or future laws pertaining to the leasing and development of all islands, salt-water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs, owned by the State within tidewater limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, and all unsold public free school land, both surveyed and unsurveyed, in so far as same are not in conflict herewith.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421b-1. Leasing for Minerals of Lands Under and Adjacent to Caddo Lake and Tributaries › Section 2.

Sec. 2. The development and operation upon the lands included herein shall be conducted so far as practicable in such manner as to prevent such pollution of the water as will destroy fish or wildlife.  The Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the advice and assistance of the Game and Fish Commission, shall prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for that purpose.
Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 844, ch. 311.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-4. Easements or Surface Leases of Gulf Lands to United States for National Defense; Authority of School Land Board › Section 1.

Sec. 1. The School Land Board, created by House Bill No. 9 of the Forty-sixth Legislature (being Title:  Public Lands, Chapter 3, of the General Laws of the Forty-sixth Legislature, 1939,)  is hereby authorized to grant and issue easements or surface leases to the United States of America in accordance with the conditions hereinafter set out, on any island, salt water lake, bay, inlet, or marsh within tidewater limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas, to be used exclusively for any purpose essential to the National Defense.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-4. Easements or Surface Leases of Gulf Lands to United States for National Defense; Authority of School Land Board › Section 2.

Sec. 2. When the proper authority or agency of the United States of America shall make application to the School Land Board describing the area which is deemed necessary for use in the National Defense said Board shall issue an easement or surface lease to the United States of America granting and conveying to it the free and uninterrupted use of the area described.  Provided that before such lease or leases be granted in any county that the Board shall notify the County Judge of said county and shall fix a date for hearing at which time all interested persons may be heard in protest or otherwise.  Such easement or surface lease shall be effective only so long as the area is used for the purpose of National Defense, and it shall cease and terminate and the State of Texas shall be revested with full title and possession of the area when same is no longer used for such purpose.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-4. Easements or Surface Leases of Gulf Lands to United States for National Defense; Authority of School Land Board › Section 3.

Sec. 3. The easements or surface leases granted hereunder shall be upon the express condition that the State of Texas shall retain all of the oil, gas, and other mineral rights in and under the area affected.  The consideration to be paid for the use of said areas shall be agreed upon by the School Land Board and the United States of America and it shall be payable to the State of Texas on an annual basis.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-4. Easements or Surface Leases of Gulf Lands to United States for National Defense; Authority of School Land Board › Section 4.

Sec. 4. All leases for grazing purposes heretofore issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office which are covered or partially covered by any easement or surface lease granted hereunder are hereby made subordinate to such easement or surface lease.  If the lessee under any existing oil and gas lease heretofore granted by the State on any area affected by an easement or surface lease granted hereunder, shall file or cause to be filed in the General Land Office an agreement, subordinating to the easement or surface lease granted hereunder all rights held by such lessee under such oil and gas lease, then and in that event the running of both the primary and principal terms of such lease shall be suspended during the existence of such easement or lease;  provided, however, that lessee continues the annual rental payment stipulated in the lease during such suspended period.  Such oil and gas lease shall remain in status quo, and all obligations, duties, rights and privileges existing under such lease shall be inoperative and of no force and effect until the expiration of said easement or surface lease, at which time said oil and gas lease shall again become operative and all of the obligations, duties, rights and privileges, including the payment of rentals under same, shall again attach and be in force as they were on the date of the suspension and continue for the unexpired term of such lease.  The School Land Board shall give notice immediately to such lessees that their leases are again in force when said easement or surface lease has terminated;  provided, however, that the annual rental payments have been met.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-4. Easements or Surface Leases of Gulf Lands to United States for National Defense; Authority of School Land Board › Section 5.

Sec. 5. All areas on which there now exists oil, gas, or other mineral production are specifically excluded from the terms of this Act.
Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 20, ch. 10.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421c-6. Patents Validated

All patents issued prior to the effective date of Article 5421-c as amended by House Bill No. 9 of the Forty-sixth Legislature, such effective date being September 21, 1939, by the authority of the State, under the seal of the State and of the Land Office, signed by the Governor and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to parties who for a period of ten (10) years prior to the date of application for the patent had held and claimed the same in good faith, under the provisions of Section 5 of Chapter 271, Acts of the Forty-second Legislature, Regular Session, are hereby ratified and title validated and confirmed in such patentees, their heirs or assigns, subject only to the mineral reservation as contained in Section 4, Chapter 271, Acts of the Forty-second Legislature, Regular Session, and without regard to whether or not such land was located within five (5) miles of a well producing oil or gas in commercial quantities at the time of such patent.
Acts 1943, 48th Leg., p. 368, ch. 247, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421d. Patents to Lands Formerly Claimed as in New Mexico › Section 1.

Sec. 1. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office is authorized and requested to prepare and issue, and the Governor is authorized to execute and deliver, patents for the lands and accretions thereto, heretofore claimed by New Mexico to be in that state, but determined by the Supreme Court of the United States by Decree entered April 9, 1928 (New Mexico against Texas, 276 U.S. 556) to be in Texas, to the persons who, on April 9, 1928, were in actual bona fide possession of said lands and claiming title to such lands under patent from the United States.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421d. Patents to Lands Formerly Claimed as in New Mexico › Section 2.

Sec. 2. In order to receive a patent under this Act, the person desiring such patent shall first make written application to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, describing the land for which a patent is sought and shall show in such application the facts necessary under this Act to entitle applicant to a patent hereunder, and the applicant shall verify the allegations in the application by any accompanying Affidavit, stating that such allegations are true to the best of the knowledge and belief of the applicant, and it shall be necessary that any such application be filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office within five (5) years from the date upon which this Act goes into effect, and the applicant shall, upon filing said application, deposit with the Commissioner of the General Land Office One Dollar ($1.00) for each acre or fractional part of an acre in the land covered by the application, which shall constitute the purchase price for said land, and upon the delivery of any patent to any person under this Act, the purchase price shall be applied to the Public School Fund of the State of Texas.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421d. Patents to Lands Formerly Claimed as in New Mexico › Section 3.

Sec. 3. It is further provided that any land acquired by the patent issued under this Act shall be subject to the same liens other than liens for taxes and water and like quasi public charges that would have been against such land had it been in New Mexico.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421d. Patents to Lands Formerly Claimed as in New Mexico › Section 4.

Sec. 4. It is provided that patents issued under this Act shall be merely quitclaims, and the title conveyed by such patents shall be subject to any prior conveyances by this State, and the patents shall so read.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421d. Patents to Lands Formerly Claimed as in New Mexico › Section 5.

Sec. 5. As used in this Act, the term "person" applies to and includes an individual, corporation, partnership, or association.
Acts 1933, 43rd Leg., p. 634, ch. 212.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421f-2. Reinstatement of Claims to Lands Forfeited Under Article 5326

The purchasers or their vendees, heirs or legal representatives who have used, occupied, and made improvements on lands prior to the date of forfeiture, and which lands have been forfeited under the provisions of Article 5326, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas as amended by said House Bill No. 56;  and who shall have, within six months after the expiration of the five year limitation period provided for reinstatement in Section 3 of said House Bill No. 56, and prior to January 1, 1947, paid or tendered payment to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of all delinquent interest, accompanied by written requests for reinstatement, may have their claims reinstated by renewing such requests and paying all delinquent interest up to the date of reinstatement.
Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 351, ch. 191, Sec. 3-A, added Acts 1947, 50th Leg., p. 275, ch. 169, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421j. Grant of Filled in Land to City of Corpus Christi › Section 1.

Sec. 1. All right, title and interest of the State of Texas in and to all land within the area hereinafter mentioned, hitherto lying and situated under the waters of Corpus Christi Bay for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) cash, is hereby relinquished, confirmed and granted unto the said City of Corpus Christi, its successors and assigns, for public purposes, to-wit:
Being all of that filled-in land lying and being situated in Nueces County, Texas, landward behind the seawall and easterly of the shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay as shown in Survey No. 803 and in the patent from the State of Texas to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, said patent being dated January 4, 1924, and being Patent No. 86, Volume 21-A.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 86 - Lands--Public › Chapter 7 - General Provisions › Article 5421j. Grant of Filled in Land to City of Corpus Christi › Section 2.

Sec. 2. All exchanges, sales and conveyances hitherto made by the City of Corpus Christi of property within the area described in Section 1 are hereby ratified;  and such property is confirmed, relinquished and granted unto the respective assignees of the City of Corpus Christi, and to their heirs, successors, and assigns, without limitation as to the use thereof to be made by them.