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Tex. Natural Resources Code § 31.155

This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 31.155, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.

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§ 31.155. SPECIAL STATUS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES.

Official statutory text

(a) The division is not responsible for maintaining the inventory records, as provided by Section 31.154, of the real property administered by the Texas Department of Transportation, an institution of higher education, the Employees Retirement System of Texas, or the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. The agencies administering the real property shall maintain those records.

(b) The Texas Department of Transportation, on the request of the division, shall submit its real property inventory records to the division. The real property inventory records of an institution of higher education, the Employees Retirement System of Texas, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, on the request of the division, but not more than semiannually, shall be submitted to the division for information purposes only. The division shall maintain the inventory records of the former Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, to the extent possible, and is responsible for the disposal of any real property interests held by the former commission as provided by Subchapter G.

(c) The division may review and verify the department's records and make recommendations regarding the department's real property, and the commissioner shall prepare a report involving the department's real property to the same extent that the division and commissioner perform these functions with regard to the records and real property of other state agencies.

(d) The duty under this subchapter of the division to review and verify real property records and to make recommendations regarding real property and of the commissioner to prepare a report involving real property does not apply to:

(1) the real property of an institution of higher education;

(2) the real property that is part of a fund created or specifically authorized by the constitution of this state and that is administered by or with the assistance of the land office;

(3) the real property of the Employees Retirement System of Texas;

(4) the real property of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; and

(5) the real property located in the Capitol complex, as defined by Section 443.0071, Government Code

(5) the real property included in the Capitol Complex as defined by Section 411.061(a)(1), Government Code.

(e) The duties of the division to make recommendations regarding real property and of the commissioner to prepare a report involving real property under this subchapter do not apply to:

(1) the real property of the Texas Historical Commission;

(2) the real property comprising the Alamo;

(3) the real property comprising the French Legation;

(4) the real property comprising the Governor's Mansion;

(5) the real property comprising the Texas State Cemetery, more specifically described as 17.376 acres located at 801 Comal, Lot 5, Division B, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas;

(6) the real property administered by the State Preservation Board; and

(7) highway rights-of-way owned by the Texas Department of Transportation.

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