| (a) If the Board unanimously approves the tract of land for
patenting to release all or part of the state's interest in the land, the
patent shall be issued by the General Land Office in accordance with the requirements
of the statutory authority and rules and regulations of the General Land Office
governing the issuance of patents generally.
(b) Patents issued pursuant to §11.084 and §11.085
of the Natural Resources Code shall be issued in the name of the holder of
record title of the tract or tracts or to the first titleholder common to
multiple claimants. In the event of a multiple claim to the same tract, in
which there is no common titleholder, no patent shall issue.
(c) Patents issued pursuant to §11.084 and §11.085
of the Natural Resources Code shall exclude mineral rights, with the following
to be stated on the patent: "PROVIDED HOWEVER, that there is reserved unto
the State of Texas for the use and benefit of the Permanent School Fund and
excluded from this grant, all oil, gas, coal, lignite, sulfur, and other mineral
substances from which sulfur may be derived or produced, salt, potash, uranium,
thorium, and all other minerals in and under the land described above wherever
located and by whatever method recovered, as well as the right to lease such
minerals and the right of ingress and egress to explore for and produce the
same."
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