Texas Administrative Code
Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
Part 1 - GENERAL LAND OFFICE
Chapter 1 - EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter G - PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING AND PROCESSING APPLICATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF PATENT LAND RELEASED BY THE STATE
Section 1.92 - Application Requirements

(1) an application on the form prescribed by the commissioner;

(2) a notarized affidavit on the form prescribed by the Commissioner, which among other things, requires that the claimant swear that the claimant and, to the best of claimant's knowledge and belief, claimant's predecessors in interest, acquired the land without actual knowledge that title to the land was vested in the state of Texas; and

(3) an attachment to the application which contains documents necessary to support the claim.

(1) a certified copy of the claimant's deed, or deed of claimant's predecessors in interest, recorded in the appropriate county or counties;

(2) a certified copy of the claimant's chain of title that originated on or before January 1, 1952;

(3) a copy of any boundary survey or plat of survey, in the applicant's possession, which covers any of the deeded tract;

(4) a sworn certificate from the tax assessors-collectors of the taxing jurisdictions in which the claimed tract is located stating that all taxes assessed on the claimed tract or tracts and any interest and penalties associated with any periods of tax delinquency have been paid In the event that public records concerning the tax payments on the claimed tract or tracts are unavailable for any period the tax assessors-collectors of the taxing jurisdictions in which the claimed tract is located shall provide the School Land Board with a sworn certificate stating that, to the best of their knowledge:

(5) such other documentation as the applicant deems necessary or assistive in explaining the deed or chain of title.