Tex. Natural Resources Code § 191.002
DECLARATION OF PUBLIC POLICY
Texas · Texas Natural Resources Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Natural Resources Code § 191.002, DECLARATION OF PUBLIC POLICY, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/697108
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It is the public policy and in the public interest of the State of Texas to locate, protect, and preserve all sites, objects, buildings, pre-twentieth century shipwrecks, and locations of historical, archeological, educational, or scientific interest, including but not limited to prehistoric and historical American Indian or aboriginal campsites, dwellings, and habitation sites, archeological sites of every character, treasure imbedded in the earth, sunken or abandoned ships and wrecks of the sea or any part of their contents, maps, records, documents, books, artifacts, and implements of culture in any way related to the inhabitants, pre-history, history, natural history, government, or culture in, on, or under any of the land in the State of Texas, including the tidelands, submerged land, and the bed of the sea within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas.