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Recently, I had the honor of speaking at the 10th Annual John Huffaker Agricultural Law Course. \u00a0This event, put on by the Texas State Bar, is a continuing education event for attorneys. \u00a0My task was to provide an overview of limited liability statutes in Texas. \u00a0Three statutes (Recreational Use Statute, Agritourism Act, and Farm Animal liability Act) offer limited liability to Texas landowners if the requirements are met. \u00a0It is critical that Texas landowners be aware of these statutes and seek to comply to protect their operations in the event that someone is injured on the property.
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As part of my presentation, I prepared a paper that walks through each of these three statutes. \u00a0Fair warning, it was written for attorneys, so it may\u00a0leave everyone else bored to tears. \u00a0But with that disclaimer, if you are interested in reading my paper,\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had the honor of speaking at the 10th Annual John Huffaker Agricultural Law Course. \u00a0This event, put on by the Texas State Bar, is a continuing education event for attorneys. \u00a0My task was to provide an overview of limited liability statutes in Texas. \u00a0Three statutes (Recreational Use Statute, Agritourism Act, and Farm Animal liability Act) offer limited liability to Texas landowners if the requirements are met. \u00a0It is critical that Texas landowners be aware of these statutes and seek to comply to protect their operations in… Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landowner-liability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTexas Landowner Liability Statutes - Texas Agriculture Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2016\/06\/20\/texas-landowner-liability-statutes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Texas Landowner Liability Statutes - Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recently, I had the honor of speaking at the 10th Annual John Huffaker Agricultural Law Course. \u00a0This event, put on by the Texas State Bar, is a continuing education event for attorneys. \u00a0My task was to provide an overview of limited liability statutes in Texas. \u00a0Three statutes (Recreational Use Statute, Agritourism Act, and Farm Animal liability Act) offer limited liability to Texas landowners if the requirements are met. \u00a0It is critical that Texas landowners be aware of these statutes and seek to comply to protect their operations in... 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