Tex. Est. Code § 1160.052 · Subchapter B. MINERAL LEASES AFTER PUBLIC NOTICE
LEASE APPLICATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The guardian of the estate shall file with the court a written application for authority to lease estate property for mineral exploration and development, with or without a pooling provision or unitization clause.
(b) The lease application must:
(1) describe the property fully enough by reference to the amount of acreage, the survey name or number, or the abstract number, or by another method that adequately identifies the property and the property's location in the county in which the property is located;
(2) specify the interest thought to be owned by the estate, if less than the whole, but request authority to include all of the interest owned by the estate if that is the intention; and
(3) set out the reasons the estate property described in the application should be leased.
(c) The lease application is not required to set out or suggest:
(1) the name of any proposed lessee; or
(2) the terms, provisions, or form of any desired lease.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.1160.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Est. Code § 1160.052. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 1160.053SCHEDULING OF HEARING ON APPLICATION; CONTINUANCE.Printed as Section 1160.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 1160.054NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION.Printed as Section 1160.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 1160.055REQUIREMENTS REGARDING ORDER AND NOTICE MANDATORY.Printed as Section 1160.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 1160.056HEARING ON APPLICATION; ORDER.Printed as Section 1160.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 1160.057MAKING OF LEASE ON GRANTING OF APPLICATION.Printed as Section 1160.052
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