Tex. Natural Resources Code § 86.042
This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 86.042, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.
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§ 86.042. RULES AND ORDERS.
Official statutory text
The commission shall adopt and enforce rules and orders to:
(1) conserve and prevent the waste of gas;
(2) prevent the waste of gas in drilling and producing operations and in the piping and distribution of gas;
(3) require dry or abandoned wells to be plugged in a way that confines gas and water in the strata in which they are found and prevents them from escaping into other strata;
(4) provide for drilling wells and preserving a record of them;
(5) require wells to be drilled and operated in a manner that prevents injury to adjoining property;
(6) prevent gas and water from escaping from the strata in which they are found into other strata;
(7) require records to be kept and reports made;
(8) provide for the issuance of permits and other evidences of permission when the issuance of the permit or permission is necessary or incident to the enforcement of its blanket grant of authority to make any rules necessary to effectuate the law; and
(9) otherwise accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
(1) conserve and prevent the waste of gas;
(2) prevent the waste of gas in drilling and producing operations and in the piping and distribution of gas;
(3) require dry or abandoned wells to be plugged in a way that confines gas and water in the strata in which they are found and prevents them from escaping into other strata;
(4) provide for drilling wells and preserving a record of them;
(5) require wells to be drilled and operated in a manner that prevents injury to adjoining property;
(6) prevent gas and water from escaping from the strata in which they are found into other strata;
(7) require records to be kept and reports made;
(8) provide for the issuance of permits and other evidences of permission when the issuance of the permit or permission is necessary or incident to the enforcement of its blanket grant of authority to make any rules necessary to effectuate the law; and
(9) otherwise accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
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