Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 84.004 · Chapter 84. TEXAS FARM AND RANCH LANDS CONSERVATION PROGRAM
TERMS OF AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An agricultural conservation easement under this chapter must be perpetual or for a term of 30 years.
(b) The owner of qualified land and a potential purchaser of an agricultural conservation easement should consider and negotiate easement terms, including the following considerations:
(1) whether the landowner will receive a lump sum or annual payments;
(2) whether the term of the easement shall be perpetual or for a term of 30 years;
(3) whether a term easement is renewable;
(4) whether the landowner retains limited development rights; and
(5) the purchase price of the easement.
(c) An agricultural conservation easement may not be assigned to or enforced by a third party without the express written consent of the landowner.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Natural Resources Code, Subchapter B, Chapter 183 by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 401 (H.B. 1925), Sec. 1, eff. June 10, 2015.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.84.htm
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