Art. 5337-2. EXECUTION IN FAVOR OF NUECES COUNTY WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 4 FOR WATER SUPPLY.
Sec. 1. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized and empowered, acting for and on behalf of the State of Texas, to execute any and all grants of easements in, on, and across all unsold Public Free School Lands, and in, on, and across all islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, and reefs owned by the state within the tidewater limits, and in, on, and across that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, to Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 for right-of-ways for pipe lines and for the installation of all works, facilities, and appliances, in any and all manners incident to, helpful or necessary for securing, storing, processing, treating, transporting, and selling an adequate supply of fresh water;  provided, however, said Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 shall pay the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) as consideration for the granting of each easement.
Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office may grant the easements provided in Section 1 hereof for such term and shall cover only such area which in the judgment of the Commissioner may be required to carry out the purposes for which said District was created, and, if he deems it necessary, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may grant such easements perpetually.
Sec. 3. During the existence of the easements authorized and granted pursuant hereto the officers and employees, contractors and sub-contractors of the Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4 are hereby authorized to go in and upon the lands described herein to construct such pipe lines and to install all works, facilities, appliances, and to repair and to remove same from time to time.
Sec. 4. All easements granted under Section 1 of this Act shall be on forms approved by the Attorney General.
Sec. 5. All income received by the Land Commissioner under this Act from Public School Lands shall be credited to the Permanent School Fund.
Sec. 6. The powers and authority herein conferred and vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall be cumulative of all powers and authority heretofore and hereafter vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office under the Constitution and laws of this state.
Acts 1959, 56th Leg., p. 688, ch. 314.
Sec. 5 amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 328, Sec. 10, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.