§ 772.010.Applicability of Article

This article doesn't apply statewide. It reaches only lands within a city in a county with more than 4,000,000 residents, or in a narrower band of counties whose population fell between 700,000 and 710,000 as measured by the 1960 federal decennial census — population figures that, in practice, point to a small number of specific counties.

That geographic limit signals how targeted this article is compared to the general quiet title chapter. It was written to address a particular pattern of urban oil-field leases — surface rights tied to old mining or oil and gas leases in dense city environments — rather than to serve as a general remedy available anywhere in the state.