An authority may condemn or acquire real property for turnpike-related purposes, but only in the listed situations and subject to the rule on supplemental facilities and mineral exclusions.
Sec. 366.165. CONDEMNATION OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) Subject to Subsection (c), an authority may acquire public or private real property in the name of the authority by the exercise of the power of condemnation under the laws applicable to the exercise of that power on property for public use if: (1) the authority and the property owner cannot agree on a reasonable price for the property; or (2) the property owner is legally incapacitated, absent, unknown, or unable to convey title. (b) An authority may condemn real property that the authority determines is: (1) necessary or appropriate to construct or to efficiently operate a turnpike project; (2) necessary to restore public or private property damaged or destroyed, including property necessary or convenient to mitigate an environmental effect that directly results from the construction, operation, or maintenance of a turnpike project; (3) necessary for access, approach, and interchange roads; (4) necessary to provide proper drainage and ground slope for a turnpike project; or (5) necessary otherwise to implement this chapter. (c) An authority may construct a supplemental facility only on real property the authority purchases. (d) An authority shall, in a statement or petition in condemnation, exclude from the interest to be condemned all the oil, gas, and sulphur that can be removed from beneath the real property. This exclusion shall be made without providing the owner of the oil, gas, or sulphur any right of ingress or egress to or from the surface of the land to explore, develop, drill, or mine the real property. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1171, Sec. 7.24, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 281 (H.B. 2702), Sec. 2.101(16), eff. June 14, 2005. Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 239 (H.B. 341), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.