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Tex. Human Resources Code § 152.2171 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 152 / Section 152.2171
§ 152.2171. SHERMAN COUNTY.
Status: in_force

(a) The Sherman County Juvenile Board is composed of the county judge, the district judges in Sherman County, and the judge of any statutory court designated as a juvenile court.

(b) The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as chairman at the beginning of each year.

(c) The board may cooperate with other juvenile boards to provide adequate services.

(d) The juvenile board members receive no compensation for serving on the board.

(e) Sections 152.0003 and 152.0005(b) do not apply to the juvenile board of Sherman County.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6603.201 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6603 / Section 6603.201
§ 6603.201. CIVIL PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who violates this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter is liable to the district for a civil penalty of not less than $10 or more than $200 for each violation.

(b) Each day a violation continues is a separate violation.
Tex. Government Code § 78.001 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 78 / Section 78.001
§ 78.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) "Committee" means the capital and forensic writs committee established under this subchapter.

(2) "Office of capital and forensic writs" means the office of capital and forensic writs established under Subchapter B.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3834.109 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3834 / Section 3834.109
§ 3834.109. NO EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

The district may not exercise the power of eminent domain.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1901.251 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1901 / Section 1901.251
§ 1901.251. PREMIUM BASIS.
Status: in_force

An insurer may not write a professional liability insurance policy under this chapter on less than an annual premium basis.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 86.003 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 86 / Section 86.003
§ 86.003. DETERMINATION OF SEPARATE WELLS.
Status: in_force

If oil or gas, or both, is produced through different strings of casing set in the same well bore, the inner string through which oil or gas, or both, is produced shall be regarded as one well, and each successive additional string of casing through which oil or gas, or both, is produced from a different producing horizon through the same well bore shall be regarded as another well.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1954.003 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1954 / Section 1954.003
§ 1954.003. APPLICABILITY TO AUTOMATED MOTOR VEHICLES.
Status: in_force

An automated motor vehicle, as defined by Section 545.451, Transportation Code, is considered a transportation network company driver for purposes of Subchapter B, and the coverage requirements of that subchapter apply to the automated motor vehicle.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3871.254 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3871 / Section 3871.254
§ 3871.254. ASSUMPTION OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
Status: in_force

(a) After the city dissolves the district, the city assumes, subject to the appropriation and availability of funds, the obligations of the district, including any bonds or other indebtedness payable from assessments or other district revenue.

(b) If the city dissolves the district, the board shall transfer ownership of all district property to the city.
Tex. Transportation Code § 367.066 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 367 / Section 367.066
§ 367.066. TAX EXEMPTIONS.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this subchapter are exempt from taxation by this state or a municipality or other political subdivision of this state.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 66.301 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 66 / Section 66.301
§ 66.301. DUTIES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES.
Status: in_force

(a) Each criminal justice agency shall:

(1) compile and maintain records needed for reporting data required by the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;

(2) transmit to the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, when and in the manner each department directs, all data required by the appropriate department;

(3) give the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or the departments' accredited agents, access to the agency for the purpose of inspection to determine the completeness and accuracy of data reported;

(4) cooperate with the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice so that each department may properly and efficiently perform the department's duties under this chapter; and

(5) cooperate with the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to identify and eliminate redundant reporting of information to the criminal justice information system.

(b) An optical disk or other technology may be used instead of microfilm as a medium to store information if allowed by the applicable state laws or rules relating to the archiving of state agency information.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7806.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7806 / Section 7806.101
§ 7806.101. LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT POWERS.
Status: in_force

The district may exercise all of the rights, powers, privileges, and functions conferred or imposed by the general law of this state applicable to a levee improvement district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including those provided by Chapters 49 and 57, Water Code.
Tex. Government Code § 54A.314 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54A / Section 54A.314
§ 54A.314. FUNDING AND PERSONNEL.
Status: in_force

(a) The office of court administration may:

(1) contract for available county and federal money from any available source; and

(2) employ personnel, including investigators, auditors, court coordinators, and other judicial staff, necessary to implement and administer this subchapter.

(b) The presiding judges of the administrative judicial regions and counties may contract for federal money available from any source to reimburse the costs and salaries of the associate judges and personnel appointed under this subchapter and may also use public or private grants.

(c) The presiding judges of the administrative judicial regions and the office of court administration in cooperation with other agencies shall take action necessary to maximize the amount of federal money available to fund the use of associate judges under this subchapter.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 91.0205 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 91 / Section 91.0205
§ 91.0205. COMMISSIONER'S POWERS AND DUTIES; EFFECT OF CONFLICT WITH OTHER LAW.
Status: in_force

To the extent a power or duty given to the commissioner by this chapter, or another law relating to services for the blind or persons with visual disabilities, conflicts with any of the following provisions of the Government Code, the Government Code provision controls:

(1) Subchapter A, Chapter 524;

(2) Section 524.0101;

(3) Sections 524.0151(a)(2) and (b);

(4) Section 524.0202; and

(5) Section 525.0254.
Tex. Government Code § 2003.906 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2003 / Section 2003.906
§ 2003.906. NOTICE OF APPEAL TO OFFICE; DEPOSIT.
Status: in_force

(a) To appeal an appraisal review board order to the office under this subchapter, a property owner must file with the chief appraiser of the appraisal district:

(1) a completed notice of appeal to the office in the form prescribed by Section 2003.907; and

(2) a deposit in the amount of $1,500, made payable to the office.

(a-1) The notice of appeal required under Subsection (a)(1) must be filed with the chief appraiser not later than the 30th day after the date the property owner receives notice of the order.

(a-2) The deposit required under Subsection (a)(2) must be filed with the chief appraiser not later than the 90th day after the date the property owner receives notice of the order. The deposit is refundable:

(1) less the filing fee if the property owner and the appraisal district settle before the appeal is heard; or

(2) less the filing fee and the office's costs if the property owner and the appraisal district settle after the appeal is heard.

(a-3) If the property owner fails to pay the deposit as required under Subsection (a-2):

(1) the office shall dismiss the property owner's appeal; and

(2) the property owner is not entitled to file an appeal under this subchapter in any subsequent tax year.

(b) As soon as practicable after receipt of a notice of appeal, the chief appraiser for the appraisal district shall:

(1) indicate, where appropriate, those entries in the records that are subject to the appeal;

(2) submit the notice of appeal and deposit to the office; and

(3) request the appointment of a qualified administrative law judge to hear the appeal.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1058.209 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1058 / Section 1058.209
§ 1058.209. USE OF BOND PROCEEDS.
Status: in_force

The district may use the proceeds of bonds issued under this subchapter to pay:

(1) any expense the board determines is reasonable and necessary to issue, sell, and deliver the bonds;

(2) interest payments on the bonds during a period of acquisition or construction of a project or facility to be provided through the bonds, not to exceed five years;

(3) costs related to the operation and maintenance of a project or facility to be provided through the bonds:

(A) during an estimated period of acquisition or construction, not to exceed five years; and

(B) for one year after the project or facility is acquired or constructed;

(4) costs related to the financing of the bond funds, including debt service reserve and contingency funds;

(5) costs related to the bond issuance;

(6) costs related to the acquisition of land or interests in land for a project or facility to be provided through the bonds; and

(7) construction costs of a project or facility to be provided through the bonds, including the payment of related professional services and expenses.
Tex. Local Government Code § 212.0105 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 212 / Section 212.0105
§ 212.0105. WATER AND SEWER REQUIREMENTS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies only to a person who:

(1) is the owner of a tract of land in a county in which a political subdivision that is eligible for and has applied for financial assistance through Subchapter K, Chapter 17, Water Code;

(2) divides the tract in a manner that creates any lots that are intended for residential purposes and are five acres or less; and

(3) is required under this subchapter to have a plat prepared for the subdivision.

(b) The owner of the tract:

(1) must:

(A) include on the plat or have attached to the plat a document containing a description of the water and sewer service facilities that will be constructed or installed to service the subdivision and a statement of the date by which the facilities will be fully operable; and

(B) have attached to the plat a document prepared by an engineer registered to practice in this state certifying that the water and sewer service facilities described by the plat or on the document attached to the plat are in compliance with the model rules adopted under Section 16.343, Water Code; or

(2) must:

(A) include on the plat a statement that water and sewer service facilities are unnecessary for the subdivision; and

(B) have attached to the plat a document prepared by an engineer registered to practice in this state certifying that water and sewer service facilities are unnecessary for the subdivision under the model rules adopted under Section 16.343, Water Code.

(c) The governing body of the municipality may extend, beyond the date specified on the plat or on the document attached to the plat, the date by which the water and sewer service facilities must be fully operable if the governing body finds the extension is reasonable and not contrary to the public interest. If the facilities are fully operable before the expiration of the extension period, the facilities are considered to have been made fully operable in a timely manner. An extension is not reasonable if it would allow a residence in the subdivision to be inhabited without water or sewer services.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1024.111 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1024 / Section 1024.111
§ 1024.111. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may enter into construction contracts for the district.

(b) The board may enter into a construction contract that involves the expenditure of more than the amount provided by Section 271.024, Local Government Code, only after competitive bidding as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8025.0104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8025 / Section 8025.0104
§ 8025.0104. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors may not hold an election under Section 8025.0103 until each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located has consented by ordinance or resolution to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district.
Tex. Water Code § 36.310 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 36 / Section 36.310
§ 36.310. ASSETS ESCHEAT.
Status: in_force

Upon the dissolution of a district by the commission, all assets of the district shall be sold at public auction and the proceeds given to the county if it is a single-county district. If it is a multicounty district, the proceeds shall be divided with the counties in proportion to the surface land area in each county served by the district.
Tex. Finance Code § 341.602 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 341 / Section 341.602
§ 341.602. STATE-LICENSED RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN ORIGINATOR RECOVERY FUND.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner under Chapter 180 shall establish, administer, and maintain a state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator recovery fund as provided by this subchapter. The amounts received by the commissioner for deposit in the fund shall be held by the commissioner in trust for carrying out the purposes of the fund.

(b) Subject to this subsection, the fund shall be used to reimburse residential mortgage loan applicants for actual damages incurred because of acts committed by a state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator who was licensed under Chapter 342, 347, 348, or 351 when the act was committed. The use of the fund is limited to reimbursement for out-of-pocket losses caused by an act that constitutes a violation of Chapter 180 or this subtitle. Payments from the fund may not be made to a lender who makes a residential mortgage loan originated by the state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator or who acquires a residential mortgage loan originated by the state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator.

(c) The fund may be used at the discretion of the commissioner to reimburse expenses incurred to secure and destroy residential mortgage loan documents that have been abandoned by a current or former state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator under the regulatory authority of the agency.

(d) Payments from the fund shall be reduced by the amount of any recovery from the state-licensed residential mortgage loan originator or from any surety, insurer, or other person or entity making restitution to the applicant on behalf of the originator.

(e) The commissioner, as manager of the fund, is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable and necessary costs and expenses incurred in the management of the fund, including costs and expenses incurred with regard to applications filed under Section 341.605.

(f) The commissioner shall remit to the comptroller amounts received under Section 341.603(a) for deposit in an interest-bearing deposit account in the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company. Amounts in the fund may be invested and reinvested under the prudent person standard described by Section 11b, Article VII, Texas Constitution, and the interest from those investments shall be deposited to the credit of the fund. An investment may not be made under this subsection if the investment will impair the necessary liquidity required to satisfy payment of claims under this subchapter.
Tex. Estates Code § 1054.005 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 1054 / Section 1054.005
§ 1054.005. APPOINTMENT OF INTERPRETER.
Status: in_force

At the time the court appoints the attorney ad litem under Section 1054.001, the court shall appoint a language interpreter or sign interpreter if necessary to ensure effective communication between the proposed ward and the attorney.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 59.07 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 59 / Section 59.07
§ 59.07. IMMUNITY.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not impose any additional liability on any authorized state, county, or municipal officer engaged in the lawful performance of the officer's duties.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3861.155 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3861 / Section 3861.155
§ 3861.155. MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TAX; ELECTION.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Section 3861.161, the district may impose a tax for maintenance and operation purposes, including for:

(1) planning, constructing, acquiring, maintaining, repairing, and operating all improvement projects, including land, plants, works, facilities, improvements, appliances, and equipment of the district; and

(2) paying costs of services, engineering and legal fees, and organization and administrative expenses.

(b) The district may not impose a maintenance and operation tax unless the maximum tax rate is approved by the governing body of the city and a majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose. If the maximum tax rate is approved, the board may impose the tax at any rate that does not exceed the approved rate.

(c) A maintenance and operation tax election may be held at the same time and in conjunction with any other district election. The election may be called by a separate election order or as part of any other election order.

(d) The proposition in a maintenance and operation tax election may be for a specific maximum rate or for an unlimited rate.
Tex. Transportation Code § 504.667 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 504 / Section 504.667
§ 504.667. TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER LICENSE PLATES.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall issue Texas Medical Center specialty license plates. The department shall design the license plates in consultation with Texas Medical Center.

(b) After deduction of the department's administrative costs, the remainder of the fee for issuance of the license plates shall be deposited to the credit of an account created by the comptroller in the manner provided by Section 504.6012(b). Money deposited to that account may be used only by the comptroller to provide grants to benefit Texas Medical Center and member institutions of Texas Medical Center.
Tex. Transportation Code § 253.002 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 253 / Section 253.002
§ 253.002. DEFINITION.
Status: in_force

In this chapter, "improvement" means construction or repair.
Tex. Education Code § 86.22 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 86 / Section 86.22
§ 86.22. ACCRUED INTEREST.
Status: in_force

The interest heretofore collected by the State Board of Education in accordance with the provisions of the act of August 21, 1876, due at the end of the fiscal year of 1876, on the bonds belonging to the Agricultural and Mechanical College and invested in six percent state bonds, shall also constitute a part of the perpetual fund of the university until the legislature shall otherwise provide. The state board shall collect the semiannual interest on the bonds as it becomes due, and place the money in the state treasury to the credit of the fund. The interest on all such bonds is set apart exclusively for the use of the university and shall be drawn from the treasury by the board of directors on vouchers audited by the board, or approved by the governor and attested by the secretary of the board. On the vouchers being filed with the comptroller, he shall draw his warrant on the state treasury as necessary to pay the directors, professors and officers of the university.
Tex. Government Code § 30.00855 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 30 / Section 30.00855
§ 30.00855. CLERK; OTHER PERSONNEL.
Status: in_force

(a) The city manager of the city shall appoint a clerk of the municipal court of record who may hire, direct, and remove the personnel authorized in the city's annual budget for the clerk's office. The clerk shall perform the duties in accordance with statutes, the city charter, and city ordinances.

(b) Sections 30.00009(c) and (d) do not apply to this subchapter.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 44.28 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 44 / Section 44.28
§ 44.28. WHEN MISDEMEANOR IS AFFIRMED.
Status: in_force

In misdemeanor cases where there has been an affirmance, no proceedings need be had after filing the mandate, except to forfeit the bond of the defendant, or to issue a capias for the defendant, or an execution against his property, to enforce the judgment of the court, as if no appeal had been taken.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 574.151 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 574 / Section 574.151
§ 574.151. APPLICABILITY.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies only to a person for whom a motion for court-ordered mental health services is filed under Section 574.001, for whom a final order on that motion has not been entered under Section 574.034, 574.0345, 574.035, or 574.0355 and who requests voluntary admission to an inpatient mental health facility:

(1) while the person is receiving at that facility involuntary inpatient services under Subchapter B or under Chapter 573; or

(2) before the 31st day after the date the person was released from that facility under Section 573.023 or 574.028.
Tex. Government Code § 614.010 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 614 / Section 614.010
§ 614.010. EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION MAY NOT REIMBURSE CERTAIN COSTS.
Status: in_force

A peace officers' or fire fighters' association may not reimburse a member of the legislature or an employer of a peace officer or fire fighter who serves as a member of the legislature for wages, pension contributions, or other costs incurred as a result of legislative leave taken under this subchapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1106.152 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1106 / Section 1106.152
§ 1106.152.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1106.152. PROPOSED BUDGET: NOTICE AND HEARING. (a) The board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed budget.

(b) Notice of the hearing must be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in Sherman County not later than the 10th day before the date of the hearing.

(c) Any district taxpayer is entitled to:

(1) appear at the time and place designated in the notice; and

(2) be heard regarding any item included in the proposed budget.