Sec. 89.084.  MONEY PAID COMMISSION BY PRIVATE PERSON.  (a)  The commission may accept money from private persons and use the money to plug or replug a well.
(b)  Paying money to the commission is not an admission that the person paying the money is obligated to plug or replug the well.  Evidence that a person has paid money to the commission is not admissible against the person in a suit in which the person's obligation to plug a well is an issue and introducing the evidence is a compulsory ground for mistrial.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2555, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.