{"statuteBody":"<html xmlns:xs=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:fn=\"http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions\" xmlns:xdt=\"http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-datatypes\"><head><META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\"><title></title><link type=\"text/css\" href=\"./stylesheets/HistoricalStatute.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"></head><body class=\"statuteText\"><pre xml:space=\"preserve\">\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-indent:7ex;\" class=\"left statuteText\">Sec.\u00A089.084.\u00A0\u00A0MONEY PAID COMMISSION BY PRIVATE PERSON.  (a)  The commission may accept money from private persons and use the money to plug or replug a well.</p><p style=\"text-indent:7ex;\" class=\"left statuteText\">(b)\u00A0\u00A0Paying money to the commission is not an admission that the person paying the money is obligated to plug or replug the well.  Evidence that a person has paid money to the commission is not admissible against the person in a suit in which the person's obligation to plug a well is an issue and introducing the evidence is a compulsory ground for mistrial.</p>\r\n<p class=\"left statuteText\">Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2555, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n        </pre></body></html>","hadText":true}