1. (a) The commission may acquire by gift, devise, purchase, or exercise of its general power of eminent domain land in this state on which is located:

   1. (1) a building, site, or landmark of statewide historical significance associated with historic events or personalities;
   2. (2) a prehistoric ruin;
   3. (3) a burial ground;
   4. (4) an archaeological site;
   5. (5) a vertebrate paleontological site; or
   6. (6) a site containing fossilized footprints, an inscription made by human agency, or another archaeological, paleontological, or historic feature.
2. (b) For a historic site, building, or structure, the commission may exercise the power of eminent domain under Subsection (a) only on a proper showing that the exercise is necessary to prevent destruction or deterioration of the historic site, building, or structure.
3. (c) The commission may request from the Texas Historical Commission a certification or authentication of the worthiness of preservation of a feature listed in Subsection (a).

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.