DETERMINATION OF OWNERSHIP.
Tex. NAT. RES Code § 134.067.
in effectIf the ownership of the coal has been severed from the private surface estate by a conveyance that does not expressly grant the right to extract coal by surface mining methods, the surface-subsurface legal relationship shall be determined in accordance with state law.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 12.02(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
