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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171.154 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 171 / Section 171.154
§ 171.154. CONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.
Status: in_force

(a) This subchapter shall be construed, as a matter of state law, to be enforceable to the maximum possible extent consistent with but not further than federal constitutional requirements, even if that construction is not readily apparent, as such constructions are authorized only to the extent necessary to save the subchapter from judicial invalidation. Judicial reformation of statutory language is explicitly authorized only to the extent necessary to save the statutory provision from invalidity.

(b) If any court determines that a provision of this subchapter is unconstitutionally vague, the court shall interpret the provision, as a matter of state law, to avoid the vagueness problem and shall enforce the provision to the maximum possible extent. If a federal court finds any provision of this subchapter or its application to any person, group of persons, or circumstances to be unconstitutionally vague and declines to impose the saving construction described by this subsection, the Supreme Court of Texas shall provide an authoritative construction of the objectionable statutory provisions that avoids the constitutional problems while enforcing the statute's restrictions to the maximum possible extent and shall agree to answer any question certified from a federal appellate court regarding the statute.

(c) A state executive or administrative official may not decline to enforce this subchapter, or adopt a construction of this subchapter in a way that narrows its applicability, based on the official's own beliefs concerning the requirements of the state or federal constitution, unless the official is enjoined by a state or federal court from enforcing this subchapter.

(d) This subchapter may not be construed to:

(1) authorize the prosecution of or a cause of action to be brought against a woman on whom an abortion is performed or induced in violation of this subchapter; or

(2) create or recognize a right to abortion or a right to a particular method of abortion.
Tex. Property Code § 27.003 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 27 / Section 27.003
§ 27.003. LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) In an action subject to this chapter arising from a construction defect:

(1) a contractor is liable only to the extent a defective condition proximately causes:

(A) actual physical damage to the residence;

(B) an actual failure or lack of capability of a building component to perform its intended function or purpose; or

(C) a verifiable danger to the safety of the occupants of the residence;

(2) a contractor is not liable for damages caused by:

(A) negligence of a person other than the contractor or an agent, employee, or subcontractor of the contractor;

(B) failure of a person other than the contractor or an agent, employee, or subcontractor of the contractor to:

(i) mitigate the damages;

(ii) maintain the residence; or

(iii) timely notify a contractor of a construction defect;

(C) normal wear, tear, or deterioration;

(D) normal cracking or shrinkage cracking due to drying or settlement of construction components within the tolerance of building standards; or

(E) the contractor's reliance on written information relating to the residence, appurtenance, or real property on which the residence and appurtenance are affixed that was obtained from official government records, if the written information was false, modified, or inaccurate and the contractor did not know and could not reasonably have known of the falsity, modification, or inaccuracy of the information; and

(3) if an assignee of the claimant or a person subrogated to the rights of a claimant fails to provide the contractor with the written notice and opportunity to inspect and offer to repair required by Section 27.004 before performing repairs, the contractor is not liable for the cost of any repairs or any percentage of damages caused by repairs made to a construction defect at the request of an assignee of the claimant or a person subrogated to the rights of a claimant by a person other than the contractor or an agent, employee, or subcontractor of the contractor.

(b) Except as provided by this chapter, this chapter does not limit or bar any other defense or defensive matter or other defensive cause of action applicable to an action to recover damages or other relief arising from a construction defect.

(c) To maintain a claim of breach of a warranty of habitability, a claimant must establish that a construction defect:

(1) was latent at the time the residence was completed or title was conveyed to the original purchaser; and

(2) has rendered the residence unsuitable for its intended use as a home.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8021.0001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8021 / Section 8021.0001
§ 8021.0001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

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

(2) "District" means the Lakeway Municipal Utility District, Travis County.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1063.158 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1063 / Section 1063.158
§ 1063.158. FINANCIAL REPORT.
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the chief administrative officer shall prepare for the board:

(1) a complete sworn statement of all district money; and

(2) a complete account of the disbursements of district money.
Tex. Transportation Code § 702.001 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 702 / Section 702.001
§ 702.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Department" means the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.

(2) "Registration" of a motor vehicle includes a renewal of the registration of that vehicle.

(3) "Traffic law" means a statute or ordinance, a violation of which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $200, that regulates, on a street, road, or highway of this state:

(A) the conduct or condition of a person while operating a motor vehicle; or

(B) the condition of a motor vehicle being operated.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 19A.154 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 19A / Section 19A.154
§ 19A.154. DETERMINATION OF VALIDITY OF CHALLENGE.
Status: in_force

When a person challenges the array or a grand juror, the court shall hear proof and decide in a summary manner whether the challenge is well founded.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7982A.0105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7982A / Section 7982A.0105
§ 7982A.0105. FINDINGS OF PUBLIC PURPOSE AND BENEFIT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is created to serve a public purpose and benefit.

(b) The district is created to accomplish the purposes of:

(1) a municipal utility district as provided by general law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and

(2) Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8143.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8143 / Section 8143.103
§ 8143.103. NAVIGATION POWERS.
Status: in_force

The district may purchase, construct, acquire, own, operate, maintain, improve, or extend, inside and outside the district, canals, waterways, bulkheads, docks, and any other improvements or facilities necessary or convenient to accomplish the navigation purposes of the district authorized by Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 31.015 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 31 / Section 31.015
§ 31.015. RECORDS AND REVIEW.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall require each provider receiving reimbursement under this chapter to maintain records and information for each applicant for or recipient of services.

(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules relating to the information a provider is required to report to the department and shall adopt procedures to prevent unnecessary and duplicative reporting of data.

(c) The department shall review records, information, and reports prepared by program providers and shall annually prepare a report for submission to the governor and the legislature relating to the status of the program. The department shall make the report available to the public.

(d) The report required under Subsection (c) must include:

(1) the number of individuals receiving care under this chapter;

(2) the total cost of the program, including a delineation of the total administrative costs and the total cost for each service authorized under Section 31.003(e);

(3) the average cost per recipient of services;

(4) the number of individuals who received services in each public health region; and

(5) any other information required by the executive commissioner.

(e) In computing the number of individuals to be reported under Subsection (d)(1), the department shall ensure that no individual is counted more than once.
Tex. Property Code § 67.004 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 67 / Section 67.004
§ 67.004. AUTOMATIC PERFECTION OF LIEN.
Status: in_force

An oil and gas lien of an interest owner is perfected automatically without the need to file a financing statement or any other type of documentation.
Tex. Finance Code § 157.02014 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 157 / Section 157.02014
§ 157.02014. AFFILIATED BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS.
Status: in_force

Unless prohibited by federal or state law, this chapter may not be construed to prevent affiliated or controlled business arrangements or loan origination services by or between residential mortgage loan originators sponsored by and conducting business for a registered mortgage banker under this chapter and other professionals if the residential mortgage loan originator complies with all applicable federal and state laws permitting those arrangements or services.
Tex. Occupations Code § 101.101 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 101 / Section 101.101
§ 101.101. TRAINING PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

(a) The council shall establish a training program for the governing bodies of state agencies that regulate health professions.

(b) Before a member of a governing body may assume the member's duties and before the member may be confirmed by the senate, the member must complete at least one course of the training program established under this section.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 263.085 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 263 / Section 263.085
§ 263.085. COLLECTION OF MONEY.
Status: in_force

(a) The superintendent shall collect money due the hospital.

(b) The superintendent shall keep an accurate account of money collected at the hospital, report at the monthly meeting of the board of managers the amount of money collected, and transmit the money to the county treasurer of the county in which the hospital is located within 10 days after the date of the meeting of the board.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1029.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1029 / Section 1029.101
§ 1029.101. DISTRICT RESPONSIBILITY.
Status: in_force

The district has full responsibility for:

(1) operating all hospital facilities; and

(2) providing hospital care for the district's needy inhabitants.
Tex. Government Code § 497.021 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 497 / Section 497.021
§ 497.021. AUTHORITY.
Status: in_force

This subchapter governs the sale of prison-made products to governmental agencies.
Tex. Occupations Code § 164.154 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 164 / Section 164.154
§ 164.154. EFFECT OF LICENSE REINSTATEMENT ON CERTAIN PROSECUTIONS OR PENALTIES.
Status: in_force

If a physician has had charges filed against the physician during a period in which the physician's license was not in force or was suspended, revoked, or canceled, or if penalties have been incurred by the physician during that period, the reinstatement of the physician's license does not abate the prosecution or penalties.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 166.088 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 166 / Section 166.088
§ 166.088. PROCEDURE WHEN PERSON HAS NOT EXECUTED OR ISSUED OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER AND IS INCOMPETENT OR INCAPABLE OF COMMUNICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) If an adult person has not executed or issued an out-of-hospital DNR order and is incompetent or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication, the attending physician and the person's legal guardian, proxy, or agent having a medical power of attorney may execute an out-of-hospital DNR order on behalf of the person.

(b) If the person does not have a legal guardian, proxy, or agent under a medical power of attorney, the attending physician and at least one qualified relative from a category listed by Section 166.039(b), subject to the priority established under that subsection, may execute an out-of-hospital DNR order in the same manner as a treatment decision made under Section 166.039(b).

(c) A decision to execute an out-of-hospital DNR order made under Subsection (a) or (b) must be based on knowledge of what the person would desire, if known.

(d) An out-of-hospital DNR order executed under Subsection (b) must be made in the presence of at least two witnesses who qualify under Section 166.003, at least one of whom must be a witness who qualifies under Section 166.003(2).

(e) The fact that an adult person has not executed or issued an out-of-hospital DNR order does not create a presumption that the person does not want a treatment decision made to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation and certain other designated life-sustaining treatment designated by department rule.

(f) If there is not a qualified relative available to act for the person under Subsection (b), an out-of-hospital DNR order must be concurred in by another physician who is not involved in the treatment of the patient or who is a representative of the ethics or medical committee of the health care facility in which the person is a patient.

(g) A person listed in Section 166.039(b) who wishes to challenge a decision made under this section must apply for temporary guardianship under Chapter 1251, Estates Code. The court may waive applicable fees in that proceeding.
Tex. Water Code § 60.072 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 60 / Section 60.072
§ 60.072. SPECIFIC POWERS OF DISTRICTS.
Status: in_force

To accomplish the purposes stated in Section 60.071 of this code, the commission may exercise the following powers:

(1) control the operation of all types of vehicles using the roads maintained by the district, other than roads dedicated to public use by formal dedication, and prescribe the speed, lighting, and other requirements of these vehicles;

(2) prohibit loitering on docks, wharves, piers, warehouses, sheds, or other properties of the district;

(3) control the operation of all types of vessels using harbors, turning basins, basins, or navigable channels of the district and prescribe the speed, lighting, and other requirements of these vessels;

(4) prohibit smoking and the use of flares, open fires, and inflammable, highly combustible, or explosive substances and materials on docks, wharves, piers, warehouses, sheds, and other properties of the district, or on those parts of the properties and at those times or during those periods as may, in the judgment of the commission, be determined to be dangerous to any of the property or inimical to the safety or general welfare of persons using the property or parts of it;

(5) prevent on any of the property all trespasses, breaches of the peace and good order, assaults and batteries, fighting, quarrels, use of abusive, profane, or insulting language, disorderly conduct, and misdemeanor theft and punish offenders;

(6) suppress and prevent any riot, affray, disturbance, or disorderly assembly on any of the property; and

(7) license and regulate or suppress and prevent hawkers and peddlers utilizing or attempting to utilize the roads and other property of the district.
Tex. Government Code § 403.219 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 403 / Section 403.219
§ 403.219. FINAL DISMISSAL OR DISSOLUTION OF INJUNCTION.
Status: in_force

(a) If a restraining order or injunction is finally dismissed or dissolved and a bond was filed, the comptroller shall make demand on the applicant and the applicant's sureties for the immediate payment of all taxes, fees, and penalties due the state.

(b) Taxes, fees, and penalties that are secured by a bond and remain unpaid after a demand for payment shall be recovered in a suit by the attorney general against the applicant and the applicant's sureties in a court of competent jurisdiction of Travis County or in any other court having jurisdiction of the suit.
Tex. Transportation Code § 225.184 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 225 / Section 225.184
§ 225.184. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHANE DETWILER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.
Status: in_force

(a) The portion of State Highway 99 in Chambers County between its intersection with Interstate Highway 10 and the Harris County line is designated as the Deputy Sheriff Shane Detwiler Memorial Highway.

(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Deputy Sheriff Shane Detwiler Memorial Highway and any other appropriate information; and

(2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7928.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7928 / Section 7928.105
§ 7928.105. COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION.
Status: in_force

The district shall comply with all applicable requirements of any ordinance or resolution that is adopted under Section 54.016 or 54.0165, Water Code, and that consents to the creation of the district or to the inclusion of land in the district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8513.0707 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8513 / Section 8513.0707
§ 8513.0707. POWER OF AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE BONDS ISSUED BY AUTHORITY.
Status: in_force

(a) Using any money available for the purpose, the authority may purchase bonds issued by it at a price not exceeding the redemption price applicable at the time of purchase, or, if the bonds are not redeemable, at a price not exceeding the principal amount of the bonds plus accrued interest.

(b) All bonds purchased under this section shall be canceled, and bonds may not be issued in lieu of those bonds.
Tex. Local Government Code § 395.058 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 395 / Section 395.058
§ 395.058. ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Status: in_force

(a) On or before the date on which the order, ordinance, or resolution is adopted under Section 395.042, the political subdivision shall appoint a capital improvements advisory committee.

(b) The advisory committee is composed of not less than five members who shall be appointed by a majority vote of the governing body of the political subdivision. Not less than 50 percent of the membership of the advisory committee must be representatives of the real estate, development, or building industries who are not employees or officials of a political subdivision or governmental entity. If the impact fee is to be applied in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the political subdivision, the membership must include a representative from that area.

(c) The advisory committee serves in an advisory capacity and is established to:

(1) advise and assist the political subdivision in adopting land use assumptions;

(2) review the capital improvements plan and file written comments;

(3) monitor and evaluate implementation of the capital improvements plan;

(4) file semiannual reports with respect to the progress of the capital improvements plan and report to the political subdivision any perceived inequities in implementing the plan or imposing the impact fee; and

(5) advise the political subdivision of the need to update or revise the land use assumptions, capital improvements plan, and impact fee.

(d) The political subdivision shall make available to the advisory committee any professional reports with respect to developing and implementing the capital improvements plan.

(e) The governing body of the political subdivision shall adopt procedural rules for the advisory committee to follow in carrying out its duties.
Tex. Election Code § 271.010 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 271 / Section 271.010
§ 271.010. CUSTODIAN OF ELECTION RECORDS.
Status: in_force

The general custodian of election records for elections ordered by an authority of any one of the political subdivisions participating in a joint election may be appointed as the general custodian of election records for the joint election if:

(1) the election records for a common polling place are combined; or

(2) the ballots for more than one of the participating political subdivisions are deposited by the voters in a single ballot box.
Tex. Occupations Code § 171.010 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 171 / Section 171.010
§ 171.010. DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) Any disciplinary action taken by any member board against a physician licensed through the compact shall be considered unprofessional conduct which may be subject to discipline by other member boards, in addition to any violation of the medical practice act or regulations in that state.

(b) If a license granted to a physician by the member board in the state of principal license is revoked, surrendered or relinquished in lieu of discipline, or suspended, then all licenses issued to the physician by member boards shall automatically be placed, without further action necessary by any member board, on the same status. If the member board in the state of principal license subsequently reinstates the physician's license, a license issued to the physician by any other member board shall remain encumbered until that respective member board takes action to reinstate the license in a manner consistent with the medical practice act of that state.

(c) If disciplinary action is taken against a physician by a member board not in the state of principal license, any other member board may consider the action conclusive as to matter of law and fact decided, and:

(1) impose the same or lesser sanction against the physician so long as such sanction is consistent with the medical practice act of that state; or

(2) pursue separate disciplinary action against the physician under its respective medical practice act, regardless of the action taken in other member states.

(d) If a license granted to a physician by a member board is revoked, surrendered or relinquished in lieu of discipline, or suspended, then any license issued to the physician by any other member board shall be suspended, automatically and immediately without further action necessary by the other member board, for 90 days upon entry of the order by the disciplining board, to permit the member board to investigate the basis for the action under the medical practice act of that state. A member board may terminate the automatic suspension of the license it issued before the completion of the 90-day suspension period in a manner consistent with the medical practice act of that state.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 401.2455 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 401 / Section 401.2455
§ 401.2455. INTERIM PARTY STATE COMPACT WASTE DISPOSAL FEES.
Status: repealed

(a) The commission's executive director may establish interim party state compact waste disposal fees effective only for the period beginning on the date the compact waste disposal facility license holder is approved to accept waste at the disposal facility and ending on the effective date of the rules establishing the fees under Section 401.245. A generator is not entitled to a refund, and may not be charged a surcharge, for the disposal of waste under interim fees once the final fees have been adopted.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159, Sec. 13(2), eff. September 1, 2013.