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

Tex. Natural Resources Code § 88.092: PROHIBITED INTERFERENCE WITH ACCESS AND INSPECTION.

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  1. NATURAL RESOURCES CODE
  2. TITLE 3. OIL AND GAS
  3. SUBTITLE B. CONSERVATION AND REGULATION OF OIL AND GAS
  4. CHAPTER 88. CONTROL OF OIL PROPERTY
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION OF OIL PROPERTY

No person may:

(1) refuse to permit the governmental agency, or an agent, servant, representative, or employee of the governmental agency, to have access to an oil property for inspection and examination;

(2) interfere with the inspection and examination;

(3) remove, tamper with, mutilate, or destroy a device, seal, or meter on an oil property placed there or used in the inspection and examination; or

(4) refuse to permit the governmental agency, or an agent, servant, representative, or employee of the governmental agency, to have access, for inspection, examination, and audit, to the books, documents, and records pertaining to, used in connection with, or required to be used in connection with an oil property.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2549, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.

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