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 1.95 - Patent Issuing Requirements
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) If the Board unanimously approves the tract of land for patenting to release all or part of the state's interest in the land, the patent shall be issued by the General Land Office in accordance with the requirements of the statutory authority and rules and regulations of the General Land Office governing the issuance of patents generally.
(b) Patents issued pursuant to § 11.084 and § 11.085 of the Natural Resources Code shall be issued in the name of the holder of record title of the tract or tracts or to the first titleholder common to multiple claimants. In the event of a multiple claim to the same tract, in which there is no common titleholder, no patent shall issue.
(c) Patents issued pursuant to § 11.084 and § 11.085 of the Natural Resources Code shall exclude mineral rights, with the following to be stated on the patent: "PROVIDED HOWEVER, that there is reserved unto the State of Texas for the use and benefit of the Permanent School Fund and excluded from this grant, all oil, gas, coal, lignite, sulfur, and other mineral substances from which sulfur may be derived or produced, salt, potash, uranium, thorium, and all other minerals in and under the land described above wherever located and by whatever method recovered, as well as the right to lease such minerals and the right of ingress and egress to explore for and produce the same."
