Title NR, Natural Resources Code

Sec. 21.014. SURVEY FOR DIVISION LINE. (a) Before running a division line between two settlers or occupants claiming land, the surveyor shall give written notice to the interested parties. (b) A survey made contrary to the true intent and meaning of this section is invalid. Acts …

Sec. 21.041. FIELD NOTES OF A SURVEY OF PUBLIC LAND. The field notes of a survey of public land shall state: (1) the county in which the land is located; (2) the authority under which the survey is made and a true description of the survey; (3) the land by proper field notes with…

Sec. 21.042. SURVEYOR'S CERTIFICATION. (a) The surveyor shall certify officially: (1) to the correctness of the survey; (2) that the survey was made according to law; (3) that the survey was actually made in the field; and (4) that the field notes are duly recorded, giving the bo…

Sec. 21.043. LOST FIELD NOTES. (a) If the original field notes of an authorized survey are lost or destroyed, the owner or his agent may obtain a certified copy of the record from the county surveyor on making an affidavit of the loss or destruction and filing it in the office of…

Sec. 21.044. INCORRECT FIELD NOTES. (a) The commissioner shall have a plain statement of errors in any field notes submitted to the land office, together with a sketch of the map, forwarded by mail, or personally by the interested party, to the surveyor who made the survey, with …

Sec. 21.071. ADOPTION OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS. (a) The systems of plane coordinates which have been established by the National Oceanic Survey/National Geodetic Survey for defining and stating the positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within the State of Texa…

Sec. 21.0711. ALTERNATIVE COORDINATE SYSTEMS. (a) The Texas Spatial Reference Center at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi established under Section 88.503, Education Code, may adopt a revised state coordinate system that may be used for purposes of this subchapter under the au…

Sec. 21.072. PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS. (a) The only purpose for adopting the Texas Coordinate System of 1927 and the Texas Coordinate System of 1983 is to recognize a system for use in the State of Texas to definitely ascertain positions on the surface of the…

Sec. 21.073. DIVISION OF STATE INTO ZONES. For the purpose of using a system, the state is divided into five zones: (1) the North Zone; (2) the North Central Zone; (3) the Central Zone; (4) the South Central Zone; and (5) the South Zone. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2357, ch. 871, ar…

Sec. 21.074. AREA WITHIN ZONES. (a) The area included in the following counties constitutes the North Zone: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, O…

Sec. 21.075. ZONE NAMES IN LAND DESCRIPTION. (a) As established for use in the North Zone, the Texas Coordinate System of 1927 or the Texas Coordinate System of 1983 shall be named, and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated, the "Texas Coordinate Syst…

Sec. 21.076. DEFINITIONS. (a) For the purpose of precisely defining the Texas Coordinate System of 1927 and the Texas Coordinate System of 1983, the following definitions are adopted: (1) The Texas Coordinate System of 1927, North Zone, and the Texas Coordinate System of 1983, No…

Sec. 21.077. UNIT OF MEASUREMENT. The unit of measurement in this subchapter has the following values, based on the International Meter established by the National Bureau of Standards: (1) one meter = 39.37 inches exactly; (2) one U.S. survey foot = 0.3048006096 meter; (3) one va…

Sec. 21.078. TERMS "X COORDINATE" AND "Y COORDINATE". (a) The plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface, to be used in expressing the position or location of the point in the appropriate zone, of either system, shall consist of two distances, expressed in U.S. Su…

Sec. 21.079. LAND IN MORE THAN ONE ZONE. If a tract of land to be defined by a single description extends from one zone into another of the coordinate zones, the positions of all points on its boundaries may be referred to by either of the zones, the zone which is used being spec…