By: Turner, Bob H.B. No. 714 73R1964 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to pipeline easements granted or taken before 1960. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 111, Natural Resources 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 111.0194 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 111.0194. PIPELINE EASEMENT GRANTED OR CONDEMNED BEFORE 1-7 1960. A surface easement created by grant or through the power of 1-8 eminent domain for the benefit of a common carrier before 1960 is 1-9 presumed, unless the terms of the grant or the condemnation 1-10 petition expressly provide otherwise, to create an easement in 1-11 favor of the common carrier or a successor in interest to the 1-12 common carrier that: 1-13 (1) extends 15 feet from either side of the centerline 1-14 of the first pipeline laid in the easement; and 1-15 (2) limits pipeline placement rights to the horizontal 1-16 alignment of the pipeline being replaced. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.