1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)                H.B. No. 779
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2001;
 1-3     May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
 1-4     Resources; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the establishment of a line of vegetation along the
 1-9     Gulf of Mexico in certain areas of public beach.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 61.017, Natural Resources Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-13           (d)(1)  In an area of public beach where a combination stone
1-14     revetment and concrete sheet pile wall constructed in its entirety
1-15     as a single structure before 1999 and continuously maintained with
1-16     a height of not less than five feet above mean low tide interrupts
1-17     the natural line of vegetation for a distance not less than 7.5
1-18     miles and not more than 8.5 miles, the line of vegetation is along
1-19     the landward boundary of that strip of land coveyed to the United
1-20     States of America for the construction of the stone revetment and
1-21     concrete sheet pile wall and for the distance marked by the stone
1-22     revetment and concrete sheet pile wall.
1-23                 (2)  A line of vegetation established as described by
1-24     this subsection is the landward boundary of the public beach and of
1-25     the public easement for all purposes.  Fee title to all submerged
1-26     land as described in this code shall remain in the State of Texas.
1-27           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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