The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) adopts amendments to §535.400, concerning Registration of Easement or Right-of-Way Agents, and §535.403, concerning Renewal of Registration, without changes to the proposed text as published in the January 7, 2011, issue of the Texas Register (36 TexReg 16) and will not be republished.

Application forms will no longer be promulgated by the commission, but they will be approved when substantive changes are made. The amendments to §535.403 change the renewal fee from $83 to $80 to remove the $3 fee that registrants are required to pay for TexasOnline fees. Since such fees are adopted by Department of Information Resources Rules, the fee does not need to be separately adopted as a fee by the commission.

The reasoned justification for the rules is an enhanced application and renewal processes for Easement or Right-of-Way Agents.

No comments were received on the rules as proposed.

The amendments are adopted under Texas Occupations Code, §1101.051, which authorizes the Texas Real Estate Commission to adopt rules necessary to implement Chapter 1101.

The statute affected by this adoption is Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 1101. No other statute, code or article is affected by the amendments.