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Tex. Government Code § 475.0103 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 475 / Section 475.0103
§ 475.0103. ETHICS REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO CERTAIN COMMITTEES; FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES.
Status: in_force

(a) A local organizing committee that submits a request under Section 475.0052 must:

(1) affirm as a part of that request that the committee is in full compliance with the ethical guidelines provided by all contracts entered into and rules adopted by the site selection organization, including the organization's requirements regarding disclosure of any financial interest a director, officer, or senior-level employee of the committee has in any proposed transaction with the committee;

(2) not later than the 15th day of the first month following each calendar quarter, file with the secretary of the endorsing municipality for which the committee submits a request:

(A) a certification that the committee continues to comply with the ethical guidelines described by Subdivision (1); and

(B) a report of contributions to and expenditures by the committee, in the manner described by Subsection (b); and

(3) file with the secretary of the endorsing municipality on April 15 of each year a copy of each financial statement a committee or a member of a committee is required to submit to the United States Olympic Committee during the preceding calendar year.

(b) A report under Subsection (a)(2)(B) must include:

(1) for each contribution made to the local organizing committee:

(A) the contributor's full name and address;

(B) the date of the contribution;

(C) whether the contribution is cash, made by check, or in-kind; and

(D) the amount or market value of the contribution; and

(2) for each expenditure made by the local organizing committee:

(A) the full name and address of the person who receives payment of the expenditure;

(B) the date of the expenditure;

(C) the amount of the expenditure; and

(D) the purpose of the expenditure.

(c) The endorsing municipality for which a local organizing committee submits a request under Section 475.0052 must have a comprehensive ethics code establishing standards of conduct, disclosure requirements, and enforcement mechanisms relating to municipal officials and employees before the office considers the request.
Tex. Government Code § 1477.005 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1477 / Section 1477.005
§ 1477.005. CONTENTS OF ORDINANCE, ORDER, OR RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING BONDS.
Status: in_force

In the ordinance, order, or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this subchapter, the commissioners court may:

(1) provide for the deposit and accounting of funds and the establishment and maintenance of an interest and sinking fund, a reserve fund, or other fund; and

(2) make additional covenants relating to the:

(A) bonds;

(B) pledged revenue; or

(C) operation and maintenance of any real property, building, or other facility, the revenue of which is pledged for bond payments.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 85.015 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 85 / Section 85.015
§ 85.015. CONTRACT FOR SERVICES; DURATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The department may contract with an entity to provide the services required by Subchapters A through F if:

(1) the contract would minimize duplication of effort and would deliver services cost-effectively; and

(2) the contracting entity does not advocate or promote conduct that violates state law.

(b) Subsection (a)(2) does not restrict the inclusion in educational materials of accurate information about ways to reduce the risk of exposure to or transmission of HIV.

(c) The department may audit an entity contracting with the department under Subsection (a).

(d) The department may seek, accept, and spend funds from state, federal, local, and private entities to carry out Subsections (a) through (c).

(e) A contract entered into by the department under this subchapter may not be for a term of more than one year, except that a contract may be renewed without a public hearing.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 771.055 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 771 / Section 771.055
§ 771.055. STRATEGIC PLANNING.
Status: in_force

(a) Each regional planning commission shall develop a regional plan for the establishment and operation of 9-1-1 service throughout the region that the regional planning commission serves. The 9-1-1 service must meet the standards established by the commission.

(b) A regional plan must describe how the 9-1-1 service is to be administered. The 9-1-1 service may be administered by an emergency communication district, municipality, or county, by a combination formed by interlocal contract, or by other appropriate means as determined by the regional planning commission. In a region in which one or more emergency communication districts exist, a preference shall be given to administration by those districts and expansion of the area served by those districts.

(c) A regional plan must be updated at least once every state fiscal biennium and must include:

(1) a description of how money allocated to the region under this chapter is to be allocated in the region;

(2) projected financial operating information for the two state fiscal years following the submission of the plan; and

(3) strategic planning information for the five state fiscal years following submission of the plan.

(d) In a region in which one or more emergency communication districts exist, if a district chooses to participate in the regional plan, the district shall assist in the development of the regional plan.

(e) For each state fiscal biennium, the commission shall prepare a strategic plan for statewide 9-1-1 service for the following five state fiscal years using information from the strategic information contained in the regional plans and provided by emergency communication districts and home-rule municipalities that operate 9-1-1 systems independent of the state system. The commission shall present the strategic plan to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board, together with the commission's legislative appropriations request. The strategic plan must:

(1) include a survey of the current performance, efficiency, and degree of implementation of emergency communications services throughout the whole state;

(2) provide an assessment of the progress made toward meeting the goals and objectives of the previous strategic plan and a summary of the total expenditures for emergency communications services in this state;

(3) provide a strategic direction for emergency communications services in this state;

(4) establish goals and objectives relating to emergency communications in this state;

(5) provide long-range policy guidelines for emergency communications in this state;

(6) identify major issues relating to improving emergency communications in this state;

(7) identify priorities for this state's emergency communications system; and

(8) detail the financial performance of each regional planning commission in implementing emergency communications service including an accounting of administrative expenses.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 826.018 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 826 / Section 826.018
§ 826.018. LOCAL RABIES CONTROL PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies to a veterinarian who:

(1) is employed by a county or municipality; and

(2) administers or supervises the administration of rabies vaccine as part of a local rabies control program established by a county or municipality under this chapter.

(b) A veterinarian described by Subsection (a) is not required to establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship before administering rabies vaccine or supervising the administration of rabies vaccine.

(c) To the extent of any conflict between this section and any other law or rule relating to the administration of rabies vaccine, this section controls.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3891.102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3891 / Section 3891.102
§ 3891.102. MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties provided by the general laws of this state, including Chapter 375, Local Government Code, applicable to a municipal management district created under Sections 52 and 52-a, Article III, and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Insurance Code § 4054.352 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 4054 / Section 4054.352
§ 4054.352. QUALIFICATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) To be eligible to receive a specialty certification under this subchapter, an individual must:

(1) hold a general life, accident, and health license under this chapter;

(2) satisfy the requirements of this subchapter; and

(3) submit evidence of completion of training to the department in the manner prescribed by the commissioner.

(b) To maintain a specialty certification under this subchapter, an individual must continue to hold a general life, accident, and health license under this chapter.
Tex. Family Code § 159.612 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 159 / Section 159.612
§ 159.612. RECOGNITION OF ORDER MODIFIED IN ANOTHER STATE.
Status: in_force

If a child support order issued by a tribunal of this state is modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, a tribunal of this state:

(1) may enforce the order that was modified only as to arrears and interest accruing before the modification;

(2) may provide appropriate relief for violations of the order that occurred before the effective date of the modification; and

(3) shall recognize the modifying order of the other state, on registration, for the purpose of enforcement.
Tex. Occupations Code § 651.054 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 651 / Section 651.054
§ 651.054. TERMS; VACANCY.
Status: in_force

(a) Members of the commission serve staggered six-year terms, with the terms of one-third of the members expiring in each odd-numbered year.

(b) The governor shall appoint a person to fill a vacancy on the commission to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Tex. Insurance Code § 226.057 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 226 / Section 226.057
§ 226.057. LIMITATION ON RULEMAKING.
Status: in_force

In adopting rules under this subchapter, the comptroller may not adopt a rule that exceeds the requirements of this chapter.
Tex. Property Code § 22.003 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 22 / Section 22.003
§ 22.003. FINAL JUDGMENT CONCLUSIVE.
Status: in_force

A final judgment that establishes title or right to possession in an action to recover real property is conclusive against the party from whom the property is recovered and against a person claiming the property through that party by a title that arises after the action is initiated.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 5012.0107 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 5012 / Section 5012.0107
§ 5012.0107. SALE OF SURPLUS PROPERTY.
Status: in_force

The commission may order authority property sold as provided in Section 60.101, Water Code, if the property is not considered reasonably required to carry out the authority's plans.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7986A.0303 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7986A / Section 7986A.0303
§ 7986A.0303. AUTHORITY FOR ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

Under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may design, acquire, construct, finance, issue bonds for, improve, operate, maintain, and convey to this state, a county, or a municipality for operation and maintenance macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
Tex. Finance Code § 122.063 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 122 / Section 122.063
§ 122.063. BOND.
Status: in_force

The board shall purchase from a surety company authorized to do business in this state a blanket surety or security bond covering each director, honorary director, advisory director, officer, employee, member of an official committee, attorney, or other agent of the credit union as required by commission rule.
Tex. Government Code § 1477.006 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1477 / Section 1477.006
§ 1477.006. ADOPTION AND EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS.
Status: in_force

The commissioners court may adopt and have executed any proceeding or instrument necessary and convenient:

(1) in the issuance of a bond under this subchapter; or

(2) in the acquisition and lease of any real property, building, or other facility under Section 1477.001.
Tex. Finance Code § 62.354 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 62 / Section 62.354
§ 62.354. DENIAL BY COMMISSIONER OF PLAN.
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall issue an order denying the plan if the commissioner finds that:

(1) the reorganization, merger, or consolidation would substantially lessen competition or restrain trade, and result in a monopoly or further a combination or conspiracy to monopolize or attempt to monopolize the savings and loan industry in any part of the state, unless the anticompetitive effects of the reorganization, merger, or consolidation are clearly outweighed in the public interest by the probable effect of the reorganization, merger, or consolidation in meeting the convenience and needs of the community to be served;

(2) in a merger or consolidation, the financial condition of either entity would jeopardize the financial stability of an association that is a party to the plan;

(3) the plan is not in the best interest of an association that is a party to the plan;

(4) the experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, or integrity of the management of the entities proposing the plan is such that the reorganization, merger, or consolidation would not be in the best interest of the associations that are parties to the plan;

(5) after reorganization, merger, or consolidation, the surviving entity would not be solvent, have adequate capital structure, or be in compliance with the laws of this state;

(6) the entities proposing the plan have not furnished all of the information pertinent to the application that is reasonably requested by the commissioner; or

(7) the entities proposing the plan are not acting in good faith.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8098.0106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8098 / Section 8098.0106
§ 8098.0106. INITIAL DISTRICT TERRITORY.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is initially composed of the territory described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.

(b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter form a closure. A mistake made in the field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process does not affect the district's:

(1) organization, existence, or validity;

(2) right to issue any type of bond for the purposes for which the district is created or to pay the principal of and interest on a bond;

(3) right to impose a tax; or

(4) legality or operation.
Tex. Estates Code § 258.051 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 258 / Section 258.051
§ 258.051. NOTICE TO HEIRS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an applicant for the probate of a will under Section 256.003(a) must give notice by service of process to each of the testator's heirs whose address can be ascertained by the applicant with reasonable diligence.

(b) The notice required by Subsection (a) must:

(1) contain a statement that:

(A) the testator's property will pass to the testator's heirs if the will is not admitted to probate; and

(B) the person offering the testator's will for probate may not be in default for failing to present the will for probate during the four-year period immediately following the testator's death; and

(2) be given before the probate of the testator's will.

(c) Notice otherwise required by Subsection (a) is not required to be given to an heir who has delivered to the court an affidavit signed by the heir that:

(1) contains the statement described by Subsection (b)(1); and

(2) states that the heir does not object to the offer of the testator's will for probate.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9034.001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9034 / Section 9034.001
§ 9034.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the district's board of directors.

(2) "Director" means a board member.

(3) "District" means the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 10.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 78.111 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 78 / Section 78.111
§ 78.111. LICENSE BUYBACK.
Status: repealed

(a) The department may implement a license buyback program as part of the crab license management program established by this subchapter.

(b) The commission by rule may establish criteria, using reasonable classifications, by which the department selects licenses to be purchased. The commission may delegate to the executive director, for purposes of this section only, the authority to develop the criteria through rulemaking procedures, but the commission by order must finally adopt the rules establishing the criteria. The commission or executive director must consult with the crab license management review board concerning establishment of the criteria.

(c) The commission must retire each license purchased under the license buyback program until the commission finds that management of the crab fishery allows reissue of those licenses through auction or lottery.

(d) The department shall set aside at least 20 percent of the fee from commercial crab licenses and transfer fees. That money shall be sent to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the commercial license buyback subaccount in the game, fish, and water safety account.

(e) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1034 (H.B. 1724), Sec. 5(3), eff. September 1, 2017.

(f) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1034 (H.B. 1724), Sec. 5(3), eff. September 1, 2017.
Tex. Finance Code § 204.004 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 204 / Section 204.004
§ 204.004. REPORTS.
Status: in_force

(a) A foreign bank doing business in this state through a Texas state branch, agency, or representative office shall make written reports to the commissioner that:

(1) are in English;

(2) are submitted at the times and in the form specified by the commissioner or by rules adopted under this subtitle;

(3) are under oath of one of the foreign bank's officers, managers, or agents transacting business in this state;

(4) show the amount of the foreign bank's assets and liabilities, expressed in United States currency;

(5) with respect to a Texas state branch or agency, show the amount of the branch or agency's assets and liabilities, expressed in United States currency; and

(6) contain other information that the commissioner requires.

(b) A license or registration of a foreign bank under this chapter may be revoked or the foreign bank may be subject to an enforcement action under Chapter 35 if the foreign bank fails to make a report required under Subsection (a) or makes a material false or misleading statement in the report.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 5.118 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 5 / Section 5.118
§ 5.118. SECURITY INTEREST OF ISSUER OR NOMINATED PERSON.
Status: in_force

(a) An issuer or nominated person has a security interest in a document presented under a letter of credit to the extent that the issuer or nominated person honors or gives value for the presentation.

(b) So long as and to the extent that an issuer or nominated person has not been reimbursed or has not otherwise recovered the value given with respect to a security interest in a document under Subsection (a), the security interest continues and is subject to Chapter 9, but:

(1) a security agreement is not necessary to make the security interest enforceable under Section 9.203(b)(3);

(2) if the document is presented in a medium other than a written or other tangible medium, the security interest is perfected; and

(3) if the document is presented in a written or other tangible medium and is not a certificated security, chattel paper, a document of title, an instrument, or a letter of credit, the security interest is perfected and has priority over a conflicting security interest in the document so long as the debtor does not have possession of the document.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 46B.081 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 46B / Section 46B.081
§ 46B.081. RETURN TO COURT.
Status: in_force

Subject to Article 46B.082(b), a defendant committed or released on bail under this subchapter shall be returned to the applicable court as soon as practicable after notice to the court is provided under Article 46B.079(a), (b)(2), (b)(3), or (b-1), but not later than the date of expiration of the period for restoration specified by the court under Article 46B.0711, 46B.072, or 46B.073.
Tex. Occupations Code § 603.304 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 603 / Section 603.304
§ 603.304. CONTINUING EDUCATION.
Status: in_force

(a) To renew a license under this chapter, a person must submit proof satisfactory to the medical board that the person has complied with the continuing education requirements prescribed by the medical board.

(b) The medical board shall establish continuing education programs for licensed perfusionists and provisionally licensed perfusionists under this chapter. The standards of the programs must be at least as stringent as the standards of the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion or its successor.

(c) The medical board shall:

(1) establish a minimum number of hours of continuing education required for license renewal under this chapter; and

(2) develop a process to evaluate and approve continuing education courses.

(d) The medical board shall identify key factors for a license holder's competent performance of professional duties. The medical board shall adopt a procedure to assess a license holder's participation in continuing education programs.
Tex. Local Government Code § 43.908 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 43 / Section 43.908
§ 43.908. ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter may be enforced only through mandamus or declaratory or injunctive relief.

(b) A political subdivision's immunity from suit is waived in regard to an action under this chapter.

(c) A court may award court costs and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees to the prevailing party in an action under this chapter.
Tex. Election Code § 42.033 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 42 / Section 42.033
§ 42.033. EFFECTIVE DATE OF BOUNDARY CHANGE.
Status: in_force

(a) A change in a county election precinct boundary takes effect on the first day of the first even-numbered voting year following the voting year in which the change is ordered.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), for a boundary change under Section 42.031(b), the commissioners court may order an earlier effective date than that prescribed by Subsection (a) if:

(1) an election for an officer of a territorial unit under Section 42.005(a) is scheduled or may be scheduled to be held before the effective date of the change under Subsection (a) and the territorial unit contains the election precinct as changed; and

(2) the voter registrar has sufficient time to correct the registration records before the effective date of the change.

(c) A change in a county election precinct boundary may not take effect on a date occurring between the date of the general primary election and the date of the general election for state and county officers unless the change is necessary to:

(1) comply with Section 42.005 after a boundary change made under Article V, Section 18, of the Texas Constitution;

(2) include within a precinct a suitable building available for use as a polling place if no suitable building is available for that purpose within the existing precinct boundary; or

(3) comply with a court order.