Texas Statutes
Subchapter B. The Texas Forest Service
Section 88.110. Purchase of Land for Seedling Nursery

Sec. 88.110. PURCHASE OF LAND FOR SEEDLING NURSERY. The board may acquire by purchase in the name of the State of Texas for the use and benefit of the Texas Forest Service, and may improve, a sufficient quantity of land suitable for the operation of a forest tree seedling nursery in the reforestation program of the Texas Forest Service and for the production of other forest products. However, not more than 400 acres of land may be purchased under this section; and the selling price of seedlings produced on the land, as far as practical, shall represent the cost of production plus at least 10 percent.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3211, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.

Sec. 88.111. FOREST LAND ACQUIRED BY STATE UNDER TAX SALE. When pine forest land is sold to the state for the payment of taxes, interest, penalty, and costs adjudged against the land, as provided in Article 7328, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, and not redeemed or resold as provided in Article 7328, the land shall be withdrawn from the market and shall be held, protected, and administered by the board as state forest; and the board may manage, use, and improve the pine forest land as fully and to the same extent as in the case of other forest land held by it in accordance with the law. Forest land, as used in this section, includes all land on which is growing pine timber of any material value and all cutover pine timberland which may reasonably be expected to produce, by reason of natural or other methods of reforestation, another growth of pine timber of any material value.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3211, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.

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