Natural Resources Code § 33.232

Sec. 33.232. POLICY. It is the declared policy of the state: (1) to protect the property rights of those who sell interests in land to the state by fairly compensating the sellers; (2) to protect that coastal wetland which is most essential to the public interest by acquiring fee and lesser interests in the coastal wetland and managing it in a manner that will preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland; and (3) to assure that the state does not expend funds to acquire any coastal wetland to which it already holds a valid title at the time of the expenditure. Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1993, ch. 785, Sec. 2, eff. June 13, 1979.