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Tex. Natural Resources Code § 89.084: MONEY PAID COMMISSION BY PRIVATE PERSON.
Where this section sits in the code
- NATURAL RESOURCES CODE
- TITLE 3. OIL AND GAS
- SUBTITLE B. CONSERVATION AND REGULATION OF OIL AND GAS
- CHAPTER 89. ABANDONED WELLS
- SUBCHAPTER D. COSTS OF PLUGGING WELLS
(a) The commission may accept money from private persons and use the money to plug or replug a well.
(b) Paying money to the commission is not an admission that the person paying the money is obligated to plug or replug the well. Evidence that a person has paid money to the commission is not admissible against the person in a suit in which the person's obligation to plug a well is an issue and introducing the evidence is a compulsory ground for mistrial.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2555, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
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