Tex. Est. Code § 358.052 · Subchapter B. MINERAL LEASES AFTER PUBLIC NOTICE
LEASE APPLICATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The personal representative of an estate shall file with the county clerk of the county in which the probate proceeding is pending a written application, addressed to the court or the judge of the court, 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 by reference to the amount of acreage, the survey name or number, or the abstract number, or by another method adequately identifying the property and the property's location in the county in which the property is situated;
(2) specify the interest thought to be owned by the estate, if less than the whole, but requesting 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 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, 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.358.htm
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Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Est. Code § 358.052. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 358.053SCHEDULING OF HEARING ON APPLICATION; CONTINUANCE.Printed as Section 358.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 358.054NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION.Printed as Section 358.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 358.055REQUIREMENTS REGARDING ORDER AND NOTICE MANDATORY.Printed as Section 358.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 358.056HEARING ON APPLICATION; ORDER.Printed as Section 358.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 358.101AUTHORIZATION FOR LEASING OF MINERALS AT PRIVATE SALE.Printed as Section 358.052
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