Tex. Gov't Code § 442.0057 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SOLICITATION, RECEIPT, AND TRANSFER OF LAND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission may solicit and receive donations of land for public purposes and may refuse donations of land not acceptable for public purposes.
(b) If title to a site has vested in the commission and if ownership of the site is no longer in the best interest of the commission, the commission may transfer the title:
(1) to another state commission, department, or institution requesting the site;
(2) to the donor of the land if the donor requests the return of the site;
(3) to the United States if it has undertaken the development of the site for public purposes;
(4) to the grantor if the deed to the commission contains a reversion clause providing that title reverts to the grantor when the site is not used for the purposes for which it was acquired; or
(5) to any legally authorized entity if the property is to be used for public purposes.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1245 (S.B. 1518), Sec. 4, eff. June 17, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.442.htm
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