Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 134.067
Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
If the ownership of the coal has been severed from the private surface estate by a conveyance that does not expressly grant the right to extract coal by surface mining methods, the surface-subsurface legal relationship shall be determined in accordance with state law.
Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 134.067