- (a) The commission may use real property owned by the state, including submerged real property, that the commission could acquire under this subchapter for highway purposes.
- (b) This section does not deprive the School Land Board of authority to execute a lease authorized by law for the development of oil, gas, or another mineral on state-owned real property adjoining a state highway or in a tidewater limit and for that purpose a lease executed by the School Land Board may provide for directional drilling from real property adjoining a state highway or from a tidewater area.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.