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Tex. Tax Code § 151.346 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 151 / Section 151.346
§ 151.346. INTERCORPORATE SERVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) There are exempt from the taxes imposed by this chapter service transactions among affiliated entities, at least one of which is a corporation, that report their income to the Internal Revenue Service on a single consolidated return for the tax year in which the transaction occurs.

(b) For purposes of this section, "affiliated entity" includes an entity that would be classified as a member of an affiliated group under 26 U.S.C. Section 1504 but for the exclusions provided by that section.

(c) An exemption authorized by this section does not apply to a service that would have been taxable under this chapter as it existed on September 1, 1987.

(d) Services that are exempt under this section may not be purchased for resale by the providing company.

(e) Tangible personal property that is transferred as an integral part of a service exempted under this section may not be purchased for resale by the providing company.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8834.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8834 / Section 8834.103
§ 8834.103. WATER CONSERVATION MEASURES.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may adopt rules requiring the use of water conservation measures to reduce groundwater withdrawals.

(b) The district may cooperate with the commission and a local government to establish water conservation goals, guidelines, and plans to be used in the district.

(c) The district may contract with a local government in the district to provide services needed to meet water conservation requirements that the commission establishes.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8808.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8808 / Section 8808.153
§ 8808.153. BOARD AND DIRECTORS APPROVAL OF MERGER AGREEMENT.
Status: in_force

Before an election to confirm a proposed merger agreement described by Section 8808.152 may be held, the board and the directors must each approve the proposed merger agreement in accordance with the laws, rules, and procedures applicable to the district and the water control and improvement district.
Tex. Insurance Code § 2601.001 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2601 / Section 2601.001
§ 2601.001. SUPERVISION, LIQUIDATION, REHABILITATION, REORGANIZATION, OR CONSERVATION OF TITLE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND AGENTS.
Status: in_force

Each title insurance agent and title insurance company is subject to Chapters 441 and 443.
Tex. Tax Code § 171.058 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 171 / Section 171.058
§ 171.058. EXEMPTION--NONPROFIT CORPORATION ORGANIZED FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.
Status: in_force

A nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of religious worship is exempted from the franchise tax.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 101.065 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 101 / Section 101.065
§ 101.065. NEGLIGENCE OF OFF-DUTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to the wrongful act or omission or the negligence of an officer commissioned by the Department of Public Safety if the officer was not on active duty at the time the act, omission, or negligence occurred. This section applies without regard to whether the officer was wearing a uniform purchased under Section 411.0078, Government Code, at the time the act, omission, or negligence occurred.
Tex. Government Code § 24.153 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 24 / Section 24.153
§ 24.153.
Status: in_force

Sec. 24.153. 51ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT (COKE, IRION, SCHLEICHER, STERLING, AND TOM GREEN COUNTIES). (a) The 51st Judicial District is composed of Coke, Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, and Tom Green counties.

(b) The terms of the 51st District Court begin:

(1) in Coke County on the first Mondays in February and August;

(2) in Irion County on the first Mondays in March and September;

(3) in Schleicher County on the first Mondays in April and October;

(4) in Sterling County on the first Mondays in May and November; and

(5) in Tom Green County on the first Mondays in January and June.

(c) The judges of the 51st, 119th, 340th, and 391st district courts may, in their discretion, exchange benches and sit for each other without formal order in each county in those districts, including counties in which the districts do not overlap. Any of the judges may, in his own courtroom, try and determine any case or proceeding pending in any of the other courts without having the case transferred, or may sit in any of the other courts and hear and determine any case pending in one of those courts. The judges may try different cases filed in the same court at the same time, and each may occupy his own courtroom or the room of any other court. In case of absence, sickness, or disqualification of any of the judges, any of the other judges may hold court for him. Any of the judges may hear and determine any part or question of a case or proceeding pending in any of the courts, and any of the other judges may complete the hearing and render judgment in the case. Any of the judges may hear and determine motions, petitions for injunction, applications for appointment of receivers, interventions, motions to transfer venue, pleas in abatement, all dilatory pleas, motions for new trials, and all preliminary matters, questions, and proceedings, and may enter judgment or order thereon in the court in which the case is pending without having the case transferred to the court of the acting judge. The judge in whose court the case is pending may proceed to hear, complete, and determine any part or all of the case or other matter and render final judgment. Any of the judges may issue restraining orders and injunctions returnable to any of the other judges or courts.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 62.001 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 62 / Section 62.001
§ 62.001. GROUNDS.
Status: in_force

A writ of sequestration is available to a plaintiff in a suit if:

(1) the suit is for title or possession of personal property or fixtures or for foreclosure or enforcement of a mortgage, lien, or security interest on personal property or fixtures and a reasonable conclusion may be drawn that there is immediate danger that the defendant or the party in possession of the property will conceal, dispose of, ill-treat, waste, or destroy the property or remove it from the county during the suit;

(2) the suit is for title or possession of real property or for foreclosure or enforcement of a mortgage or lien on real property and a reasonable conclusion may be drawn that there is immediate danger that the defendant or the party in possession of the property will use his possession to injure or ill-treat the property or waste or convert to his own use the timber, rents, fruits, or revenue of the property;

(3) the suit is for the title or possession of property from which the plaintiff has been ejected by force or violence; or

(4) the suit is to try the title to real property, to remove a cloud from the title of real property, to foreclose a lien on real property, or to partition real property and the plaintiff makes an oath that one or more of the defendants is a nonresident of this state.
Tex. Insurance Code § 554.001 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 554 / Section 554.001
§ 554.001. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to each insurer or health maintenance organization engaged in the business of insurance or the business of a health maintenance organization in this state, regardless of form and however organized, including:

(1) a stock life, health, or accident insurance company;

(2) a mutual life, health, or accident insurance company;

(3) a stock fire or casualty insurance company;

(4) a mutual fire or casualty insurance company;

(5) a Mexican casualty insurance company;

(6) a Lloyd's plan;

(7) a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange;

(8) a fraternal benefit society;

(9) a title insurance company;

(10) a stipulated premium company;

(11) a nonprofit legal services corporation;

(12) a statewide mutual assessment company;

(13) a local mutual aid association;

(14) a local mutual burial association;

(15) an association exempt under Section 887.102;

(16) a nonprofit hospital, medical, or dental service corporation, including a corporation subject to Chapter 842;

(17) a county mutual insurance company;

(18) a farm mutual insurance company; and

(19) an insurer or health maintenance organization engaged in the business of insurance or the business of a health maintenance organization in this state that does not hold a certificate of authority issued by the department or is not otherwise authorized to engage in business in this state.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 4015.0503 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 4015 / Section 4015.0503
§ 4015.0503. AUTHORITY TO BORROW MONEY AND TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may borrow money on terms determined by the board.

(b) The district may issue, by public or private sale, bonds, notes, or other obligations payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, assessments, impact fees, revenue, contract payments, grants, or other district money, or any combination of those sources of money, to pay for any authorized district purpose.

(c) The district may issue, by public or private sale, bonds, notes, or other obligations payable wholly or partly from assessments in the manner provided by Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local Government Code, if the improvement financed by the obligation issued under this section will be conveyed to or operated and maintained by a municipality, county, or other retail utility provider pursuant to an agreement with the district entered into before the issuance of the obligation.
Tex. Transportation Code § 91.001 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 91 / Section 91.001
§ 91.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Commission" means the Texas Transportation Commission.

(2) "Construction" includes design, planning, and preliminary studies.

(3) "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation.

(4) "Maintenance facility" includes:

(A) a workshop;

(B) a service, storage, security, or personnel facility; and

(C) equipment for a facility described by Paragraph (A) or (B).

(5) "Operation" includes policing.

(6) "Rail facility" means real or personal property, or any interest in that property, that is determined to be necessary or convenient for the provision of a freight or passenger rail facility or system, including commuter rail, intercity rail, high-speed rail, and tri-track. The term includes all property or interests necessary or convenient for the acquiring, providing, using, or equipping of a rail facility or system, including rights-of-way, trackwork, train controls, stations, and maintenance facilities.

(7) "Revenue" includes a charge, toll, rent, payment, user fee, franchise fee, license fee, fare, tariff, and other consideration:

(A) received in return for the use of:

(i) a rail facility; or

(ii) a service offered in connection with the operation of a rail facility; or

(B) resulting from a sale or conveyance of a rail facility.

(8) "Right-of-way" means a strip of land of a length and width determined by the commission to be required, necessary, or convenient for the provision of a rail facility or system and the space over, under, or on the land where trackwork is to be located.

(9) "Station" means a passenger or freight service building, terminal, station, ticketing facility, waiting area, platform, concession, elevator, escalator, facility for handicapped access, access road, parking facility for passengers, baggage handling facility, or local maintenance facility, together with any interest in real property necessary or convenient for those items.

(10) "Surplus revenue" means:

(A) revenue that exceeds the department's debt service requirements, coverage requirements of any bond indenture, costs of operation and maintenance, and cost of expansion or improvement of a rail facility or system; and

(B) reserves and reserve funds maintained by the department under this chapter.

(11) "Trackwork" means track, track beds, track bed preparation, ties, rail fasteners, slabs, rails, emergency crossovers, setout tracks, storage tracks, drains, fences, ballast, switches, bridges, and structures.

(12) "Train controls" includes:

(A) signals, lights, and other signaling;

(B) interlocking equipment;

(C) speed monitoring equipment;

(D) braking systems;

(E) central traffic control facilities; and

(F) communication systems.

(13) "Tri-track" means a triangular monorail beam guideway:

(A) constructed at a grade above surface modes of transportation;

(B) for use by dual-mode vehicles capable of using the guideway or a highway; and

(C) with entrances accessible from and exits accessible to highways.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 152.055 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 152 / Section 152.055
§ 152.055. AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN PROFESSIONALS TO CREATE PARTNERSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) Persons licensed as doctors of medicine and persons licensed as doctors of osteopathy by the Texas Medical Board, persons licensed as podiatrists by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, and persons licensed as chiropractors by the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners may create a partnership that is jointly owned by those practitioners to perform a professional service that falls within the scope of practice of those practitioners.

(b) When doctors of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, and chiropractic create a partnership that is jointly owned by those practitioners, the authority of each of the practitioners is limited by the scope of practice of the respective practitioners and none can exercise control over the other's clinical authority granted by their respective licenses, either through agreements, bylaws, directives, financial incentives, or other arrangements that would assert control over treatment decisions made by the practitioner.

(c) The Texas Medical Board, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, and the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners continue to exercise regulatory authority over their respective licenses.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7921A.0201 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7921A / Section 7921A.0201
§ 7921A.0201. GOVERNING BODY; TERMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is governed by a board of five elected directors.

(b) Except as provided by Section 7921A.0202, directors serve staggered four-year terms.
Tex. Government Code § 2257.025 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2257 / Section 2257.025
§ 2257.025. RECORDS OF DEPOSITORY.
Status: in_force

(a) A public entity's depository shall maintain a separate, accurate, and complete record relating to a pledged investment security, a deposit of public funds, and a transaction related to a pledged investment security.

(b) The comptroller or the public entity may examine and verify at any reasonable time a pledged investment security or a record a depository maintains under this section.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 241.025 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 241 / Section 241.025
§ 241.025. LICENSE FEES.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall charge each hospital a license fee for an initial license or a license renewal.

(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt the fees authorized by Subsection (a) in amounts as prescribed by Section 12.0111 and according to a schedule under which the number of beds in the hospital determines the amount of the fee. A minimum license fee may be established.

(c) A fee adopted under this chapter must be based on the estimated cost to and level of effort expended by the department to conduct the activity for which the fee is imposed.

(d) All license fees collected shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the department to administer and enforce this chapter.

(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (d), to the extent that money received from the fees collected under this chapter exceeds the costs to the department to conduct the activity for which the fee is imposed, the department may use the money to administer Chapter 324 and similar laws that require the department to provide information related to hospital care to the public. The executive commissioner may not consider the costs of administering Chapter 324 or similar laws in adopting a fee imposed under this section.
Tex. Government Code § 432.005 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 432 / Section 432.005
§ 432.005. JUDGE ADVOCATES AND LEGAL OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The adjutant general shall appoint an officer of the state military forces as state judge advocate general. To be eligible for appointment, an officer must be a member of the State Bar of Texas for at least five years.

(b) The adjutant general shall appoint judge advocates and legal officers on recommendation by the state judge advocate general. To be eligible for appointment, a judge advocate or legal officer must be an officer of the state military forces and a member of the State Bar of Texas.

(c) The state judge advocate general or his assistants shall make frequent inspections in the field in supervision of the administration of military justice.

(d) Convening authorities shall at all times communicate directly with their staff judge advocates or legal officers in matters relating to the administration of military justice. The staff judge advocates or legal officers of a command are entitled to communicate directly with the staff judge advocates or legal officers of a superior or subordinate command or with the state judge advocate general.

(e) A person who has acted as member, military judge, trial counsel, assistant trial counsel, defense counsel, assistant defense counsel, or investigating officer, or who has been a witness for either the prosecution or defense in a case, may not later act as staff judge advocate or legal officer to a reviewing authority on the same case.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8356.107 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8356 / Section 8356.107
§ 8356.107. EFFECT OF ANNEXATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality within whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the land in the district lies may annex all of the district into its corporate limits under the terms of an agreement entered into before the effective date of the Act creating this chapter between the municipality and the owners of the land being annexed, and, in that instance, the district may not be dissolved, except as provided by Subsection (b).

(b) The district may be dissolved and its debts and obligations assumed by the municipality in accordance with Chapter 43, Local Government Code, including Sections 43.075 and 43.0715, on:

(1) annexation of all of the territory of the district by the municipality; and

(2) completion of the construction of the water, sanitary sewer, and drainage improvements and roads required to serve at least 95 percent of the land in the district.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 54.016(f)(2), Water Code, a contract between the municipality and the district that provides for the allocation of the taxes or revenues between the district and the municipality following the date of inclusion of all the district's territory in the corporate limits of the municipality may provide that the total annual ad valorem taxes collected by the municipality and the district from taxable property in the district may exceed the municipality's ad valorem tax on the property.
Tex. Transportation Code § 222.051 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 222 / Section 222.051
§ 222.051. LOCAL FINANCING AND REIMBURSEMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) A governmental unit that has the authority to build roads may finance the construction of an approved project for the state highway system.

(b) If funds become available, the department may contract to reimburse the governmental unit that provided financing for the project.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8147.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8147 / Section 8147.052
§ 8147.052. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.
Status: in_force

On the uniform election date in May of each even-numbered year, the appropriate number of directors shall be elected.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3853.154 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3853 / Section 3853.154
§ 3853.154. METHOD OF NOTICE FOR HEARING.
Status: in_force

The district may mail the notice required by Section 375.115(c), Local Government Code, by certified United States mail or an equivalent service that can provide a record of mailing or other delivery.
Tex. Water Code § 36.105 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 36 / Section 36.105
§ 36.105. EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

(a) A district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire by condemnation a fee simple or other interest in property if that property interest is:

(1) within the boundaries of the district; and

(2) necessary for conservation purposes, including recharge and reuse.

(b) The power of eminent domain authorized in this section may not be used for the condemnation of land for the purpose of:

(1) acquiring rights to groundwater, surface water or water rights; or

(2) production, sale, or distribution of groundwater or surface water.

(c) The district must exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code, but the district is not required to deposit a bond as provided by Section 21.021(a), Property Code.

(d) In a condemnation proceeding brought by a district, the district is not required to pay in advance or give bond or other security for costs in the trial court, to give bond for the issuance of a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction, or to give bond for costs or supersedeas on an appeal or writ of error.

(e) In exercising the power of eminent domain, if the district requires relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade, or altering the construction of any railroad, highway, pipeline, or electric transmission or distribution, telegraph, or telephone lines, conduits, poles, or facilities, the district must bear the actual cost of relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade, or altering the construction to provide comparable replacement without enhancement of facilities after deducting the net salvage value derived from the old facility.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8326.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8326 / Section 8326.105
§ 8326.105. 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. Election Code § 241.025 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 241 / Section 241.025
§ 241.025. COSTS OF CONTEST.
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to Section 221.013(a), the house considering an election contest may assess the costs of the contest against any one or more of the parties, except that costs may not be assessed against a contestee who prevails in the contest.

(b) In a contest covered by Section 241.019, the committee determines how the costs are to be assessed.