Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
NATURAL RESOURCES CODE |
Title 4. MINES AND MINING |
Chapter 134. TEXAS SURFACE COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION ACT |
Subchapter D. SURFACE COAL MINING PERMITS |
Sec. 134.067. DETERMINATION OF OWNERSHIP
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If the ownership of the coal has been severed from the private surface estate by a conveyance that does not expressly grant the right to extract coal by surface mining methods, the surface-subsurface legal relationship shall be determined in accordance with state law.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 12.02(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.