Texas Administrative Code

A state-chartered bank may provide investment and financial advisory services including professional asset management services and services as an adviser in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. A state bank may also serve as a dealer-manager in connection with…

(a) If you request the department to provide copies or allow inspection of public information in the possession of the department, you may be required to pay the charges and meet other requirements specified by the Texas Attorney General. (b) The department may reduce or waive an…

(a) Policy. The Texas Department of Banking (the department) is committed to the concept of open state government. As a regulator of financial institutions, however, the department recognizes the mandate of the legislature to balance the competing interests of the need of financi…

A state-chartered bank may engage in private placement transactions by acting as broker and bringing together buyers and sellers of privately placed instruments. The term "private placement transactions" means: (1) making recommendations regarding the terms and timing of the tran…

The definitions contained in § 3.51 of this chapter (relating to Definitions) apply to this subchapter. Notes 4 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.71 The provisions of this §3.71 adopted to be effective May 19, 1998, 23 TexReg 4902; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 25, June 23, 202…

A violation of this subchapter is subject to an administrative penalty not to exceed $5,000 per violation, as prescribed in § 12.020 of the Texas Agriculture Code. Each day a violation continues may be considered a separate violation for purposes of a penalty assessment. Notes 4 …

(a) All commercial cotton growers within an eradication zone are required to participate in the eradication program approved by grower referendum for that zone. (b) Participation in the eradication program includes: (1) timely reporting to the foundation, as specified in subsecti…

(a) After passage of a referendum establishing an eradication program and maximum assessment and/or upon adoption of any new requirements by the department and/or the foundation, a notice of the requirements to participate in the eradication program shall be published by the foun…

(a) Upon receiving notice from the foundation that a grower has failed to timely pay an assessment in the amount and manner established for that eradication zone, the department may assess an administrative penalty against the grower. (b) Upon receiving notice from the foundation…

(a) The department shall issue a Notice of Violation to each person against whom the department has proposed to assess a penalty under § 3.74 of this chapter (relating to Penalties for Non-Payment of Assessment and Failure To Timely Report Acreage). The Notice of Violation with a…

(a) Purpose. This section specifies the procedure by which an operator can obtain a Railroad Commission of Texas certification that natural gas from a particular gas well qualifies as high-cost natural gas under the Texas Tax Code, Chapter 201, Subchapter B, §201.057(a)(2)(A) and…

(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure by which an operator can obtain a 50% severance tax reduction for five years on the incremental oil and casinghead gas production from a qualifying lease. (b) Definitions. The following terms, when used in this se…

(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure by which an operator may obtain commission certification that the operator markets gas that was previously released into the air for 12 months or more pursuant to § 3.32 of this title (relating to Gas Well Gas and…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms when used in this section shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Affected person--The owner or occupant of real property located in the area of influence of the proposed route of a sour…

(a) Policy. Improved safety and environmental protection are the desired outcomes of any enforcement action. Encouraging operators to take appropriate voluntary corrective and future protective actions once a violation has occurred is an effective component of the enforcement pro…

(a) General. All wells shall be drilled as nearly vertical as possible by normal, prudent, practical drilling operations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the drilling of any well in such a manner that the wellbore crosses lease and/or property lines (or unit …

(a) For each well drilled for oil, gas, brine, or geothermal resources for which a directional survey report is required by rule, regulation, or order, the surveying company shall prepare and file the following information. The information shall be certified by the person having …

(a) General. Operators shall comply with this section for any wells that will be spudded on or after January 1, 2014. (1) Intent. The operator is responsible for compliance with this section during all operations at the well. It is the intent of all provisions of this section tha…

(a) Definitions and application to plug. (1) The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (A) Approved cementer--A cementing company, service company, or operator approved by the Commi…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) Electric log--A density, sonic, or resistivity (except dip meter) log run over the entire wellbore. (2) Drilling opera…

(a) All wells shall be equipped with a Bradenhead. Whenever pressure develops between any two strings of casing, the district office shall be notified immediately. No cement may be pumped between any two strings or pipe at the top of the hole, except after permission has been gra…

When coming out of the hole with the drill pipe, drilling fluid shall be circulated until equalized, and a fill-up line shall be turned into the casing to insure a full load of fluid on the bottom of the hole at all times. Notes 16 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.18 The provisions of this §…

In cable tool drilling, no operator shall drill into a known oil, gas, or geothermal resource producing formation with water from a higher formation in the hole, or with a sufficient head of water introduced into the hole to prevent gas blowing to the surface. The well shall eith…

(a) The commission or its representatives shall have access to come upon any lease or property operated or controlled by an operator, producer, or transporter of oil, gas, or geothermal resources, and to inspect any and all leases, properties, and wells and all records of said le…

(a) General requirements. (1) Operators shall give immediate notice of a fire, leak, spill, or break to the appropriate commission district office by telephone or telegraph. Such notice shall be followed by a letter giving the full description of the event, and it shall include t…

(a) No hydrocarbon flow tank, unless entirely buried, shall hereafter be placed nearer than 150 feet from any derrick, rig, building, power plant, or boiler of any description. The director of the Oil and Gas Division or his delegate may administratively grant exceptions to this …

(a) If an operator who maintains a tank or pit does not take protective measures necessary to prevent harm to birds, the operator may incur liability under federal and state wildlife protection laws. Federal statutes, such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, provide substantial pen…

The installation of a vacuum pump or other device for the purpose of putting vacuum on any gas or oil-bearing formation, or the application of any vacuum to any gas or oil-bearing formation is prohibited, except as follows. (1) If casinghead gas is utilized in a casinghead-gas pl…

(a) Where two or more wells are being produced through a common line, a common separator, or a common manifold, the flow lines leading from each well to such common line, common separator, or common manifold shall be equipped with a check valve or other means of shut-off which sh…

(a) Where oil and/or other liquid hydrocarbons are produced from two or more separate reservoirs or zones and separate proration schedules are published by the Commission for each reservoir or zone, the use of common storage is authorized as long as the requirements of § 3.26 and…

(a) Where oil and gas are found in the same stratum and it is impossible to separate one from the other, or when a well has been classified as a gas well and such gas well is not connected to a cycling plant and such well is being produced on a lease and the gas is utilized under…

(a) All natural gas, except casinghead gas, produced from wells shall be measured, with each completion being measured separately, before the gas leaves the lease, and the producer shall report the volume produced from each completion to the Commission. For Commission purposes, t…

(a) The information necessary to determine the absolute daily open flow potential of each producing associated or nonassociated gas well shall be ascertained, and a report shall be filed as required with the Commission within 90 days of completion of the well. The test shall be p…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms when used in this section shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Accredited laboratory--A laboratory as defined in Texas Water Code, § 5.801 . (2) Additive--Any chemical substance or co…

Each property that produces oil, gas, or geothermal resources and each oil, gas, or geothermal resource well and tank, or other approved crude oil measuring facility where tanks are not utilized thereon, shall at all times be clearly identified as follows. (1) A sign shall be pos…

(a) Need for agreement. Several statutes cover persons and activities where the respective jurisdictions of the RRC and the TCEQ may intersect. This rule is a statement of how the agencies implement the division of jurisdiction. (1) Section 10 of House Bill 1407, 67th Legislature…

(a) General. (1) Allowables of gas wells not currently assigned an allowable will not be made effective: (A) prior to the well's completion or reclassification date; or (B) more than 15 days prior to the date all reports or information necessary to the assignment of an allowable …

(a) The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Fugitive emissions--Releases of gas from lease production, gathering, compression, or gas plant equipment components, including emi…

(a) A production test form, with all information requested thereon filled in, shall be filed in the district office not later than 10 days after the test is completed. Production operations shall not be commenced before the test form is filed and the commission grants authority t…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section and in § 3.31 of this title (relating to Gas Reservoirs and Gas Well Allowable) (Statewide Rule 31) shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Affiliate--A person…

(a) Abandonment of radioactive source. (1) Immediate notice of the loss of a radioactive source shall be filed by the operator with the commission designating the location, by county, survey name and abstract number, lease name and well number, distances from survey boundaries an…

(a) Applicability. Each operator who conducts operations as described in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be subject to this section and shall provide safeguards to protect the general public from the harmful effects of hydrogen sulfide. This section applies to both intenti…

(a) Distance requirements. (1) No well for oil, gas, or geothermal resource shall hereafter be drilled nearer than 1,200 feet to any well completed in or drilling to the same horizon on the same tract or farm, and no well shall be drilled nearer than 467 feet to any property line…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Commission designee--Director of the Oil and Gas Division or any Commission employee designated in writing by the dire…

(a) Proration and drilling units established for individual wells drilled or to be drilled shall consist of acreage which is contiguous. (b) An exception to the contiguous acreage provision may be granted at the operator's request if acreage that is to be included in the proratio…

(a) Lease name and number. (1) All operators with oil and geothermal producing properties must ascertain from the appropriate proration schedule the lease number assigned to each separate lease, and thereafter include on each commission-required form or report the exact lease nam…

(a) An operator may pool acreage, in accordance with appropriate contractual authority and applicable field rules, for the purpose of creating a drilling unit or proration unit by filing an original certified plat delineating the pooled unit and a Certificate of Pooling Authority…