Texas Natural Resources Code 31.155 – Special Status of Certain Agencies
(a) The division is not responsible for maintaining the inventory records, as provided by § 31.154, of the real property administered by the Texas Department of Transportation, an institution of higher education, the Employees Retirement System of Texas, or the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. The agencies administering the real property shall maintain those records.
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation, on the request of the division, shall submit its real property inventory records to the division. The real property inventory records of an institution of higher education, the Employees Retirement System of Texas, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, on the request of the division, but not more than semiannually, shall be submitted to the division for information purposes only. The division shall maintain the inventory records of the former Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, to the extent possible, and is responsible for the disposal of any real property interests held by the former commission as provided by Subchapter G.
Terms Used In Texas Natural Resources Code 31.155
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(c) The division may review and verify the department’s records and make recommendations regarding the department’s real property, and the commissioner shall prepare a report involving the department’s real property to the same extent that the division and commissioner perform these functions with regard to the records and real property of other state agencies.
(d) The duty under this subchapter of the division to review and verify real property records and to make recommendations regarding real property and of the commissioner to prepare a report involving real property does not apply to:
(1) the real property of an institution of higher education;
(2) the real property that is part of a fund created or specifically authorized by the constitution of this state and that is administered by or with the assistance of the land office;
(3) the real property of the Employees Retirement System of Texas;
(4) the real property of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; and
