The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the Owning Your Piece of Texas: Key Laws Texas Landowners Need to Know workshop Feb. 20 in Tyler.
The workshop will be from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Rose Garden Center, 420 Rose Park Drive. Registration cost is $75.
Those interested can register by visiting https://tx.ag/AgLawTyler or contacting the AgriLife Extension office in Smith County at 903-590-2980 or smith-tx@tamu.edu. The deadline to register is 5 p.m. on Feb. 16.
A total of seven hours of Texas Real Estate Commission continuing education units will be available to real estate agents upon completion of the workshop. No pesticide applicator CEU credits are offered. A lunch will be provided.
On the agenda
The presenters and topics will include:
- Eminent domain – Stu Chaney, attorney, Marrs, Ellis and Hodge LLP, Austin.
- Landowner liability – Tiffany Lashmet, J.D., AgriLife Extension agricultural law specialist and associate professor in the Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics, Amarillo.
- Fence law – Lashmet.
- Water law – Lashmet.
- Special use tax valuation – Blake Bennett, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Dallas.
- Wildlife management valuation – Plateau Land Group, Austin.
The event is sponsored by Texas Land Associates and Heritage Land Bank.
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