Sec. 33.232.  POLICY.  It is the declared policy of the state:
(1)  to protect the property rights of those who sell interests in land to the state by fairly compensating the sellers;
(2)  to protect that coastal wetland which is most essential to the public interest by acquiring fee and lesser interests in the coastal wetland and managing it in a manner that will preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland;  and
(3)  to assure that the state does not expend funds to acquire any coastal wetland to which it already holds a valid title at the time of the expenditure.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1993, ch. 785, Sec. 2, eff. June 13, 1979.