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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Natural Resources Code § 52.032: REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS.

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  1. NATURAL RESOURCES CODE
  2. TITLE 2. PUBLIC DOMAIN
  3. SUBTITLE D. DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
  4. CHAPTER 52. OIL AND GAS
  5. SUBCHAPTER B. LEASE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL AND GULF LAND

(a) Development and operations on areas covered by this subchapter shall be done insofar as practicable in a manner that will prevent the pollution of water, destruction of fish, oysters, and other marine life, and obstruction of navigation.

(b) The commissioner shall adopt and enforce rules that may be necessary for the purposes stated in Subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Any rules and changes of rules adopted under this section shall be submitted to the attorney general for his written approval before the rules or their changes become effective.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2449, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.

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