Bill Text: TX HB485 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the law regarding the authority to construct or maintain a facility or structure on state land.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB485 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB485-Introduced.html
| 86R1831 JXC-F | ||
| By: Phelan | H.B. No. 485 | |
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| relating to the applicability of the law regarding the authority to | ||
| construct or maintain a facility or structure on state land. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.302, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) No person may construct or maintain any [ |
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| facility or structure on land owned by the state, nor may any person | ||
| who has not acquired a proper easement, lease, permit, or other | ||
| instrument from the state as required by this chapter or Chapter 33 | ||
| and who owns or possesses a facility or structure that is now | ||
| located on or across state land continue in possession of the land | ||
| unless the person [ |
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| easement, lease, permit, or other instrument required by this | ||
| chapter or Chapter 33 for the land on which the facility or | ||
| structure is to be constructed or is located. | ||
| (h) In this section, "facility or structure" means any | ||
| structure, work, fixture, or improvement constructed on, affixed | ||
| to, or worked on land owned by the state, including coastal public | ||
| land as defined by Section 33.004, including fixed or floating | ||
| piers, wharves, docks, jetties, groins, breakwaters, fences, | ||
| posts, retaining walls, levees, ramps, cabins, houses, shelters, | ||
| landfills, excavations, roads, houseboats, weirs, bulkheads, | ||
| mooring or anchoring areas or structures, pilings, permanently | ||
| moored barges, utility transmission lines, pipelines, and | ||
| equipment for the exploration for or production, storage, or | ||
| processing of oil, gas, or other minerals. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.3021, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: | ||
| (l) In this section, "facility or structure" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 51.302. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
