1-1  By:  Cook (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                    H.B. No. 2039
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to plugging notices of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 89.043(e), Natural Resources Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (e)  The commission shall file for record a copy of the
   1-13  notice in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the
   1-14  well is located.  The notice filed with the county need not be
   1-15  acknowledged.  The copy of the notice filed in the office of the
   1-16  county clerk must contain the section, block, survey, and abstract
   1-17  number, when available to the commission, of the land on which the
   1-18  well is located.  The clerk shall record the notice in the real
   1-19  property records of the county.  The commission shall not be
   1-20  charged a fee for the filing or recording of the notice.  The
   1-21  commission shall furnish  a copy of the notice to a holder of a
   1-22  lien on the well or a nonoperator on that person's request.  For
   1-23  purposes of title insurance policies issued under authority of
   1-24  Chapter 9, Insurance Code, this notice is not a notice of
   1-25  enforcement or violation of law, ordinance, or governmental
   1-26  regulation unless the notice contains a legally sufficient
   1-27  description of the specific land on which the  well is located.
   1-28        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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