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Tex. Transportation Code § 542.007 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 542 / Section 542.007
§ 542.007.
Status: in_force

Sec. 542.007. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: PRIVATE SUBDIVISION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a subdivision that is located in the unincorporated area of a county with a population of 500,000 or less.

(b) On petition of 25 percent of the property owners residing in a subdivision in which the roads are privately maintained or on the request of the governing body of the entity that maintains those roads, the commissioners court of the county by order may extend any traffic rules that apply to a county road to the roads of the subdivision if the commissioners court finds the order in the interest of the county generally. The petition must specify the traffic rules that are sought to be extended. The court order may extend any or all of the requested traffic rules.

(c) As a condition of extending a traffic rule under Subsection (b), the commissioners court may require that owners of the property in the subdivision pay all or part of the cost of extending and enforcing the traffic rules in the subdivision. The commissioners court shall consult with the sheriff to determine the cost of enforcing traffic rules in the subdivision.

(d) On issuance of an order under this section, the private roads in the subdivision are considered to be county roads for purposes of the application and enforcement of the specified traffic rules. The commissioners court may place official traffic control devices on property abutting the private roads if:

(1) those devices relate to the specified traffic rule; and

(2) the consent of the owner of that property is obtained.
Tex. Education Code § 21.501 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 21 / Section 21.501
§ 21.501. DEFINITION.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter, "program" means the Texas Troops to Teachers Program.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1803.154 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1803 / Section 1803.154
§ 1803.154. CIVIL PENALTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who violates this chapter or an injunction issued under Section 1803.153 is liable to the state for a civil penalty of not more than:

(1) $2,500 for a single violation; or

(2) $10,000 for all of the violations.

(b) If a person found to have violated this chapter or an injunction has filed a bond under this chapter, the suit may be brought against the bond.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 772.526 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 772 / Section 772.526
§ 772.526. FORM OF BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) A district may issue bonds in various series or issues.

(b) Bonds may mature serially or otherwise not more than 25 years after the bonds' date of issuance. Bonds shall bear interest at any rate permitted by state law.

(c) A district's bonds and interest coupons:

(1) are investment securities under Chapter 8, Business & Commerce Code;

(2) may be issued registrable as to principal or to both principal and interest; and

(3) may be made redeemable before maturity or contain a mandatory redemption provision at the option of the district.

(d) A district may issue bonds in the form, denomination, and manner and under the terms and conditions provided by the board in the resolution authorizing the bonds' issuance. The bonds must be signed and executed as provided by the board in the resolution.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 362.011 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 362 / Section 362.011
§ 362.011. AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE AND TRANSFER PROPERTY.
Status: in_force

(a) An issuer may acquire, construct, and improve a system for lease or sale as provided by this chapter and may acquire real property as the issuer considers appropriate for the system.

(b) An issuer may lease its system to another person.

(c) An issuer may sell a system, by installment payments or other method of payment, to any person on conditions the issuer considers desirable.

(d) A lease or sales contract entered into under this chapter may be for the term agreed to by the parties, and must provide that it continues in effect until the bonds specified in the lease or contract, or refunding bonds issued in place of those bonds, are fully paid.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1109.304 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1109 / Section 1109.304
§ 1109.304. ELECTION RESULTS.
Status: in_force

(a) If a majority of the district voters favor dissolution, the board shall find that the district is dissolved.

(b) If the board finds that the election results do not favor the proposition to dissolve the district, another dissolution election may not be held before the first anniversary of the date of the most recent election to dissolve the district.
Tex. Property Code § 221.103 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 221 / Section 221.103
§ 221.103. GENERAL DISCLOSURES REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

A person subject to this subchapter who enters into an agreement with a timeshare interest owner to facilitate the transfer or termination of a timeshare interest shall provide to the timeshare interest owner, before the third day before the date the timeshare interest owner enters into the agreement the following written disclosures, as applicable:

(1) the name, telephone number, and physical address of the person providing services under the agreement and any affiliate, agent, or third-party representative of that person;

(2) if the person identified in Subdivision (1), or an affiliate, agent, or third-party representative of that person providing services under the agreement, is an attorney licensed to practice law in this state, a disclosure of whether the attorney will be providing services under the agreement and representing the timeshare interest owner in connection with the transfer or termination of the timeshare interest;

(3) a description, legally sufficient for identification, of the timeshare interest to be transferred or terminated;

(4) a description of the method of transfer or termination or a copy of the instrument that will be used for transferring or terminating the timeshare interest;

(5) a description of any interest the timeshare interest owner retains after the transfer;

(6) a description of the scope of a power of attorney or other delegation of authority, if any, that the timeshare interest owner is required to give to complete the transfer of the timeshare interest;

(7) an itemized statement of any amounts the timeshare owner is required to pay as consideration or reimbursement for services provided in connection with the agreement;

(8) the name of each recipient of amounts described by Subdivision (7);

(9) the estimated date for completing all services sufficient to transfer or terminate the timeshare interest; and

(10) a statement that, on completion of the transfer or termination of the timeshare interest, the person will give written notice of the transfer or termination to:

(A) the developer, association, or managing entity, as applicable; and

(B) if applicable, the exchange company for the timeshare interest.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1152.158 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1152 / Section 1152.158
§ 1152.158. REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE BROKERS.
Status: in_force

Sections 1152.156 and 1152.157 do not apply to a person who:

(1) applied for registration before March 1, 1992;

(2) on the date of application held an active real estate broker license under The Real Estate License Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that law existed on the application date; and

(3) does not perform or supervise the performance of property tax consulting services for compensation in connection with personal property.
Tex. Utilities Code § 104.254 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 104 / Section 104.254
§ 104.254. SERVICE.
Status: in_force

A gas utility or municipally owned utility may not refuse to provide service to a state agency if pipeline capacity is available on an existing facility of the utility.
Tex. Education Code § 85.68 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 85 / Section 85.68
§ 85.68. FILING OF RECORDS.
Status: in_force

All surveys, files, records, copies of sale and lease contracts, and all other records pertaining to the sales and leases hereby authorized, shall be filed in the general land office and constitute archives thereof.
Tex. Government Code § 499.125 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 499 / Section 499.125
§ 499.125. TRANSFER OF FELONY BACKLOG.
Status: in_force

(a) If a state or federal court determines that conditions in a county jail are unconstitutional, and if on or after October 1, 1991, the percentage of inmates in the jail awaiting transfer to the institutional division is 20 percent or more of the total number of inmates in the jail, the commission shall transfer inmates from the jail to an appropriate jail, detention center, work camp, or correctional facility, but only to the extent necessary to bring the county into compliance with court orders or to reduce the percentage of inmates in the jail awaiting transfer to the institutional division to less than 20 percent of the total number of inmates in the jail.

(b) The Commission on Jail Standards is liable to counties for payment of the costs of transportation for and maintenance of transferred inmates. Costs paid to a county shall be paid into the treasury of the county operating the facility receiving the inmates. The costs for maintenance of an inmate for which the commission is liable under this section are:

(1) the actual costs, as determined by the agreement between the board and the officer or governing body authorized by law to enter into contracts, but only if Harris County, Texas v. the State of Texas, et al. in the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, Cause No. 475,468 is settled by written agreement on or before the 31st day after the effective date of this subchapter; or

(2) if the suit described by Subdivision (1) of this subsection is not settled within the period specified by the subdivision, for each inmate for each day the first $20 of actual costs and one-half of costs that are in excess of $20, with the transferring county liable to the operators of the receiving facility for all costs not paid by the state.

(c) If the board determines that a county is not reasonably utilizing its available certified jail beds, the payments authorized by this section shall be withheld to the extent necessary to equal the cost of the unutilized beds.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3894.001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3894 / Section 3894.001
§ 3894.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

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

(2) "City" means the City of Rowlett, Texas.

(3) "Director" means a member of the board.

(4) "District" means the Rowlett Downtown Management District.

(5) "Improvement project" means any program or project authorized by Section 3894.102, inside or outside the district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7807.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7807 / Section 7807.101
§ 7807.101. LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT POWERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district has all of the rights, powers, privileges, and functions provided by the general law of this state applicable to a levee improvement district created under the authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including those conferred by Chapters 49 and 57, Water Code.

(b) In the accomplishment of the district's purposes, the district may issue bonds, enter into contracts, or incur debt in the manner prescribed by this chapter.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 343.002 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 343 / Section 343.002
§ 343.002. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Abate" means to eliminate or remedy:

(A) by removal, repair, rehabilitation, or demolition;

(B) in the case of a nuisance under Section 343.011(c)(1), (9), or (10), by prohibition or control of access; and

(C) in the case of a nuisance under Section 343.011(c)(12), by removal, remediation, storage, transportation, disposal, or other means of waste management authorized by Chapter 361.

(2) "Building" means a structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of a person, animal, chattel, machine, equipment, or other moveable property.

(3) "Garbage" means decayable waste from a public or private establishment or restaurant. The term includes vegetable, animal, and fish offal and animal and fish carcasses, but does not include sewage, body waste, or an industrial by-product.

(4) "Neighborhood" means:

(A) a platted subdivision; or

(B) property contiguous to and within 300 feet of a platted subdivision.

(5) "Platted subdivision" means a subdivision that has its approved or unapproved plat recorded with the county clerk of the county in which the subdivision is located.

(6) "Premises" means all privately owned property, including vacant land or a building designed or used for residential, commercial, business, industrial, or religious purposes. The term includes a yard, ground, walk, driveway, fence, porch, steps, or other structure appurtenant to the property.

(7) "Public street" means the entire width between property lines of a road, street, way, thoroughfare, or bridge if any part of the road, street, way, thoroughfare, or bridge is open to the public for vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

(8) "Receptacle" means a container that is composed of durable material and designed to prevent the discharge of its contents and to make its contents inaccessible to animals, vermin, or other pests.

(9) "Refuse" means garbage, rubbish, paper, and other decayable and nondecayable waste, including vegetable matter and animal and fish carcasses.

(10) "Rubbish" means nondecayable waste from a public or private establishment or residence.

(10-a) "Undeveloped land" means land in a natural, primitive state that lacks improvements, infrastructure, or utilities and that is located in an unincorporated area at least 5,000 feet outside the boundaries of a home-rule municipality.

(11) "Weeds" means all rank and uncultivated vegetable growth or matter that:

(A) has grown to more than 36 inches in height; or

(B) creates an unsanitary condition likely to attract or harbor mosquitoes, rodents, vermin, or other disease-carrying pests, regardless of the height of the weeds.

(12) "Flea market" means an outdoor or indoor market, conducted on non-residential premises, for selling secondhand articles or antiques, unless conducted by a religious, educational, fraternal, or charitable organization.
Tex. Government Code § 501.0665 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 501 / Section 501.0665
§ 501.0665. CERTAIN INVASIVE SEARCHES PROHIBITED.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), any invasive body cavity search of a pregnant inmate shall be conducted by a medical professional.

(b) A correctional officer may conduct an invasive body cavity search of a pregnant inmate only if the officer has a reasonable belief that the inmate is concealing contraband. An officer who conducts a search described by this section shall submit a written report to the warden not later than 72 hours after the search. The report must:

(1) explain the reasons for the search; and

(2) identify any contraband recovered in the search.
Tex. Government Code § 41.002 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 41 / Section 41.002
§ 41.002. NOTIFICATION OF ADDRESS.
Status: in_force

Each district and county attorney shall notify the comptroller of his post office address as soon as practicable after his election and qualification.
Tex. Estates Code § 355.110 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 355 / Section 355.110
§ 355.110. ALLOCATION OF FUNERAL EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

A personal representative paying a claim for funeral expenses and for items incident to the funeral, such as a tombstone, grave marker, crypt, or burial plot:

(1) shall charge all of the claim to the decedent's estate; and

(2) may not charge any part of the claim to the community share of a surviving spouse.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 4014.0202 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 4014 / Section 4014.0202
§ 4014.0202. COMPENSATION; EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may compensate each director in an amount not to exceed $150 for each board meeting. The total amount of compensation for each director in one year may not exceed $7,200.

(b) A director is entitled to reimbursement for necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the board.

(c) Sections 375.069 and 375.070, Local Government Code, do not apply to the board.
Tex. Education Code § 12.1164 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 12 / Section 12.1164
§ 12.1164. NOTICE TO TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner must notify the Teacher Retirement System of Texas in writing of the revocation, denial of renewal, expiration, or surrender of a charter under this subchapter not later than the 10th business day after the date of the event.

(b) The commissioner must notify the Teacher Retirement System of Texas in writing that an open-enrollment charter school is no longer receiving state funding not later than the 10th business day after the date on which the funding ceases.

(c) The commissioner must notify the Teacher Retirement System of Texas in writing that an open-enrollment charter school has resumed receiving state funds not later than the 10th business day after the date on which funding resumes.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8238.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8238 / Section 8238.103
§ 8238.103. COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT ORDINANCES OR RESOLUTIONS.
Status: in_force

Subject to the limitations of Section 54.016, Water Code, the district shall comply with all applicable requirements of any ordinance or resolution adopted by the governing body of the municipality that consents to the creation of the district or to the inclusion of lands within the district.
Tex. Election Code § 251.006 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 251 / Section 251.006
§ 251.006. FEDERAL OFFICE EXCLUDED.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this title does not apply to a candidate for an office of the federal government.

(b) A candidate for an elective office of the federal government shall file with the commission a copy of each document relating to the candidacy that is required to be filed under federal law. The document shall be filed within the same period in which it is required to be filed under the federal law.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 5007.222 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 5007 / Section 5007.222
§ 5007.222. MID-RANGE PLANNING.
Status: in_force

(a) Appropriate staff shall develop a mid-range plan consistent with the long-range plan. The mid-range plan must include:

(1) a five-year financial forecast addressing the financial needs and financing options of the authority for the five-year period, with information about the relative cost of the options;

(2) a five-year capital plan, including a preliminary analysis and prioritization of projects; and

(3) other detailed action plans as the port commission or staff finds necessary to achieve the goals of the mid-range plan or long-range plan.

(b) The staff shall present the mid-range plan in an open meeting of the port commission. The port commission is not required to adopt a mid-range plan.
Tex. Government Code § 1507.102 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1507 / Section 1507.102
§ 1507.102. SALE OF BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) Instead of exchanging refunding bonds issued under this subchapter for the bonds being refunded, a municipality may sell the refunding bonds or the unexchanged portion of the refunding bonds.

(b) The municipality shall deposit the principal amount received from the sale of the refunding bonds, and the additional amount necessary to pay the interest to the call date or maturity dates, with the bank at which the original refunding bonds are payable.

(c) The municipality shall send to the comptroller a certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the refunding bonds. The comptroller shall register the refunding bonds without the cancellation of the bonds being refunded and shall deliver the refunding bonds as provided in the ordinance.
Tex. Transportation Code § 453.059 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 453 / Section 453.059
§ 453.059. LIABILITY OF CREATING MUNICIPALITY.
Status: in_force

A municipality that creates a transit department is liable for an expense the transit department incurs before the date a sales and use tax is approved for the transit department under Subchapter D, including the costs of holding the election.
Tex. Insurance Code § 443.006 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 443 / Section 443.006
§ 443.006. EXEMPTION FROM FEES.
Status: in_force

The receiver may not be required to pay any filing, recording, transcript, or authenticating fee to any public officer in this state.
Tex. Tax Code § 201.001 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 201 / Section 201.001
§ 201.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Casinghead gas" means gas or vapor indigenous to an oil stratum and produced from the stratum with oil.

(2) "Condensate" means liquid hydrocarbon that is or can be recovered from gas by a separator, but does not include liquid hydrocarbon recovered from gas by refrigeration or absorption and separated by a fractionating process.

(3) "First purchaser" means a person who purchases gas from a producer.

(4) "Gas" means natural gas, casinghead gas, or other gas taken from the earth or water, whether produced from a gas well or a well also producing oil, distillate or condensate or both, or other products.

(5) "Producer" means a person who takes gas from the earth or water, a person who owns, controls, manages, or leases a gas well, or a person who owns an interest, including a royalty interest, in gas or its value, whether the gas is produced by the person owning the interest or by another on his behalf by lease, contract, or other arrangement.

(6) "Production" or "gas produced" means the gross amount of gas taken from the earth or water as determined by meter readings that show 100 percent of the gas taken expressed in cubic feet.

(7) "Royalty interest" means an interest in mineral rights in a producing leasehold in the state, but does not include the interest of the person having the management and operation of a well.

(8) "Sour gas" means gas with more than 1-1/2 grains of hydrogen sulfide per 100 cubic feet or more than 30 grains of sulphur per 100 cubic feet.

(9) "Subsequent purchaser" means a person who purchases gas from a person other than the producer of the gas.

(10) "Sweet gas" means gas other than sour gas or casinghead gas.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 21.103 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 21 / Section 21.103
§ 21.103. DISCLOSURE OF AGREEMENT; RECALL OF CERTAIN CERTIFICATES.
Status: in_force

(a) The existence of an agreement authorized by this subchapter shall be noted conspicuously on the front or back of each certificate for outstanding shares or on the information statement required for uncertificated shares by Section 3.205.

(b) The disclosure required by this section must include the sentence, "These shares are subject to the provisions of a shareholders' agreement that may provide for management of the corporation in a manner different than in other corporations and may subject a shareholder to certain obligations or liabilities not otherwise imposed on shareholders in other corporations."

(c) A corporation that has outstanding shares represented by certificates at the time the shareholders of the corporation enter into an agreement under this subchapter shall recall the outstanding certificates and issue substitute certificates that comply with this subchapter.

(d) The failure to note the existence of the agreement on the certificate or information statement does not affect the validity of the agreement or an action taken pursuant to the agreement.