Sec. 51.066. LAND AWARD. (a) The commissioner shall prepare and issue a land award for each tract of sovereign land sold.
(b) Each land award shall be appropriately numbered and shall be worded in a manner that will constitute a receipt for the first or full payment after it is signed by the commissioner.
(c) One copy of the land award shall be retained in the land office, one copy shall be sent to the purchaser, and one copy shall be sent to the county clerk of the proper county to be recorded at no charge in the official public records of the county.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2422, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1175 (H.B. 3461), Sec. 19, eff. June 19, 2009.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 370 (H.B. 3423), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle D - Disposition of the Public Domain
Chapter 51 - Land, Timber, and Surface Resources
Subchapter C. Sale of Public School and Asylum Land
Section 51.052. Conditions for Sale of Land
Section 51.054. Reservation of Minerals
Section 51.0551. Lists of Public Land Offered for Sale: Criminal Penalties
Section 51.056. Application or Request to Purchase Land
Section 51.065. Notice and Record of Sale
Section 51.067. Information Required With Payments
Section 51.069. Disposition of Payments on Public School Land
Section 51.070. Unpaid Principal on Public School Land Sales
Section 51.071. Forfeiture of Land
Section 51.072. Effect of Forfeiture
Section 51.073. Classification and Sale of Leased and Forfeited Land
Section 51.074. Reinstatement of Land Purchases
Section 51.075. Forfeiture of a Deceased Purchaser's Land
Section 51.076. Legal Proceedings
Section 51.0771. Reinstatement Fee
Section 51.078. Transfer of Indebtedness
Section 51.079. Transfers Generally
Section 51.080. Personal Transfers
Section 51.081. Transfers Other Than Personal Transfer
Section 51.082. Liability of Vendee
Section 51.083. Patent on Part of a Tract