Workshop will focus on Texas laws
landowners need to know

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host an “Owning Your Piece of Texas: Key Laws Texas Landowners Need to Know” workshop on April 23 in San Angelo.

The workshop will be from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at San Angelo, 7887 U.S. Highway 87 North.

Registration is $75 and is online at https://tx.ag/OwnPieceofTXSanAngelo.

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 continuing education units are offered. A lunch will be provided.

The workshop is designed to provide participants with an overview of some of the most important legal issues facing landowners today.

Fence laws will be one of several topics discussed during the April 23 Owning Your Piece of Texas workshop in San Angelo. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Workshop agenda

The topics and presenters 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.

Special use tax valuation — Blake Bennett, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Dallas.

Water law — Kyle Weldon, attorney, James D. Bradbury PLLC, Austin.