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               A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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               AN ACT
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            relating to the possession, carrying, or transportation of a  | 
         
         
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            firearm or alcoholic beverage by certain persons during the use of  | 
         
         
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            an easement. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Property Code, is  | 
         
         
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            amended by adding Section 5.020 to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   Sec. 5.020.  EASEMENTS RESTRICTING POSSESSION OF FIREARMS OR  | 
         
         
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            ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PROHIBITED.  (a)  In this section: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  "Alcoholic beverage" has the meaning assigned by  | 
         
         
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            Section 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code. | 
         
         
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                         (2)  "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section  | 
         
         
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            46.01, Penal Code.  The term includes any firearm parts, firearm  | 
         
         
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            accessories, and firearm ammunition. | 
         
         
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                   (b)  An instrument granting an access easement may not  | 
         
         
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            restrict or prohibit an easement holder or an easement holder's  | 
         
         
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            guest from possessing, carrying, or transporting a firearm or an  | 
         
         
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            alcoholic beverage over the servient estate while using the  | 
         
         
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            easement for the easement's purpose. | 
         
         
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                   (c)  The owner of a servient estate may not enforce a  | 
         
         
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            restrictive covenant in an instrument granting an access easement  | 
         
         
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            over the servient estate that restricts or prohibits the easement  | 
         
         
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            holder or the easement holder's guest from possessing, carrying, or  | 
         
         
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            transporting a firearm or an alcoholic beverage over the servient  | 
         
         
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            estate while using the easement for the easement's purpose. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  Section 5.020, Property Code, as added by this  | 
         
         
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            Act, applies to an easement granted before, on, or after the  | 
         
         
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            effective date of this Act. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |