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Tex. Natural Resources Code § 85.058

This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 85.058, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.

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§ 85.058. COMMISSION INQUIRY AND DETERMINATION.

Official statutory text

From time to time, the commission may inquire into the production, storage, transportation, refining, reclaiming, treating, marketing, and processing of oil and gas, and the reasonable market demand for oil and gas, so that it may determine whether or not waste exists or is imminent or whether the oil and gas conservation laws of this state or the rules and orders of the commission promulgated under those laws are being violated.

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