Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 82.203
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 82.203, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 82.203. LAND PURCHASE; SCHOOL LANDS.
Official statutory text
The department may purchase the surface rights in not more than eight sections of public school lands located in Culberson and Hudspeth counties in the following blocks: Blocks 65 and 66, T. & P. Ry. Co. land; Blocks 42-1/2, 43, 54-1/2, Public School Lands. The minerals on the land purchased shall be reserved to the school fund and managed by the school land board. The price to be paid for the land shall not exceed $1 per acre and shall be paid for by the department out of the game, fish, and water safety account.
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