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Tex. Insurance Code § 2502.055 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2502 / Section 2502.055
§ 2502.055. PROMOTIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES NOT REBATES.
Status: in_force

(a) The activities described in this section are not rebates. Nothing in this subchapter prohibits a title insurance company or a title insurance agent from:

(1) engaging in promotional and educational activities that are not conditioned on the referral of title insurance business and not prohibited by Subchapter B, Chapter 541;

(2) purchasing advertising promoting the title insurance company or the title insurance agent at market rates from any person in any publication, event, or media;

(3) delivering to a party in the transaction or the party's representative legal documents or funds which are directly or indirectly related to a transaction closed by the title insurance company or title insurance agent;

(4) participating in an association of attorneys, builders, developers, realtors, or other real estate practitioners provided that the level of such participation does not exceed normal participation of a volunteer member of the association and is not activity that would ordinarily be performed by paid staff of an association; or

(5) providing continuing education courses at market rates, regardless of whether participants receive credit hours.

(b) "Market rate" means the price at which a seller, under no obligation or duress to sell, is willing to accept and a buyer, under no obligation or duress to buy, is willing to pay in an arms-length transaction. The market rate is determined by comparing the rights or items purchased or sold to similar rights or items that have been recently purchased by others or sold to others, including others not in the title insurance business.
Tex. Local Government Code § 507.003 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 507 / Section 507.003
§ 507.003. AUTHORITY TO CREATE CORPORATION BY ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.
Status: in_force

The following entities are eligible to authorize the creation under this subtitle of a spaceport development corporation:

(1) a county;

(2) a municipality with a population of two million or more; or

(3) a combination of one or more municipalities and one or more counties.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1045.057 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1045 / Section 1045.057
§ 1045.057. VOTING REQUIREMENT.
Status: in_force

A concurrence of a majority of the directors voting is necessary in any matter relating to district business.
Tex. Insurance Code § 443.0135 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 443 / Section 443.0135
§ 443.0135. CONTRACTS FOR SPECIAL DEPUTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the receiver shall use a competitive bidding process in the selection of any special deputies appointed under Section 443.102 or 443.154. The process must include procedures to promote the participation of historically underutilized businesses that have been certified by the comptroller under Section 2161.061, Government Code.

(b) A proposal submitted in connection with a bid solicitation under Subsection (a) must describe the efforts that have been made to include historically underutilized businesses as subcontractors and the plan for using the historically underutilized businesses in the administration of the receivership estate. A special deputy appointed under Section 443.102 or 443.154 shall make a good faith effort to implement the plan and shall report to the receiver the special deputy's efforts to identify and subcontract with historically underutilized businesses.

(c) In the event of an emergency, the receiver may appoint a special deputy without soliciting competitive bids. For the purposes of this subsection, an emergency exists if:

(1) a court has made a determination described by Section 202(a)(1)(A)(iv)(I), Pub. L. No. 111-203; or

(2) the receiver concludes that the competitive bidding process would delay the appointment of a special deputy and that the delay could be hazardous to the insurer's policyholders or creditors or the general public.
Tex. Family Code § 158.401 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 158 / Section 158.401
§ 158.401. MODIFICATIONS TO OR TERMINATION OF WITHHOLDING BY TITLE IV-D AGENCY.
Status: in_force

(a) The Title IV-D agency shall establish procedures for the reduction in the amount of or termination of withholding from income on the liquidation of an arrearages or the termination of the obligation of support in Title IV-D cases. The procedures shall provide that the payment of overdue support may not be used as the sole basis for terminating withholding.

(b) At the request of the Title IV-D agency, the clerk of the court shall issue a judicial writ of withholding to the obligor's employer reflecting any modification or changes in the amount to be withheld or the termination of withholding.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7911.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7911 / Section 7911.105
§ 7911.105. 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. Government Code § 155.206 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 155 / Section 155.206
§ 155.206. INFORMATION FOR EXCLUSIVE USE OF COMMISSION AND COURT.
Status: in_force

(a) Criminal history record information obtained under this subchapter is privileged and confidential and is for the exclusive use of the commission and the court with jurisdiction over the guardianship. The criminal history record information may not be released or otherwise disclosed to any person or agency except on court order or consent of the individual being investigated.

(b) The commission may destroy the criminal history record information after the information is used for the purposes authorized by this subchapter.
Tex. Tax Code § 151.3021 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 151 / Section 151.3021
§ 151.3021. PACKAGING SUPPLIES AND WRAPPING.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section:

(1) "Laundry or dry cleaner" does not include coin- operated or other self-service garment cleaning facilities.

(2) "Wrapping, packing, and packaging supplies" means hangers, safety pins, pins, inventory tags, staples, boxes, paper wrappers, and plastic bags.

(b) Internal and external wrapping, packing, and packaging supplies are exempted from the taxes imposed by this chapter if sold to a person who is a laundry or dry cleaner for use in wrapping, packing, or packaging an item that has been pressed and dry cleaned or laundered by the person operating as a laundry or dry cleaner in the regular course of business.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8315.003 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8315 / Section 8315.003
§ 8315.003. CONFIRMATION AND DIRECTORS' ELECTION REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors shall hold an election to confirm the creation of the district and to elect five permanent directors as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6910.004 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6910 / Section 6910.004
§ 6910.004. DISTRICT TERRITORY.
Status: in_force

The district is composed of the territory described by Section 1, Chapter 533, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961, as that territory may have been modified under:

(1) Subchapter G, Chapter 53, Water Code, before September 1, 1995;

(2) Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code; or

(3) other law.
Tex. Government Code § 662.080 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 662 / Section 662.080
§ 662.080. VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY.
Status: in_force

(a) November 7 is Victims of Communism Day in memory of the more than 100 million people who died and countless others who suffered under communist regimes.

(b) Victims of Communism Day may be regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 38.11 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 38 / Section 38.11
§ 38.11.
Status: in_force

Art. 38.11. JOURNALIST'S QUALIFIED TESTIMONIAL PRIVILEGE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Tex. Estates Code § 1051.054 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 1051 / Section 1051.054
§ 1051.054. SERVICE BY PUBLICATION.
Status: repealed

(a) Except as provided by Section 17.032, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, citation or notice to a person to be served by publication shall be published one time on the public information Internet website maintained as required by Section 72.034, Government Code, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the proceeding is pending. The publication must be made at least 10 days before the return day of the citation or notice, excluding the date of publication.

(b) The date of service of citation or notice by publication is the earlier of:

(1) the date the citation or notice is published on the public information Internet website under Subsection (a); or

(2) the date of publication printed on the newspaper in which the citation or notice is published.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 606 (S.B. 891), Sec. 15.02(2), eff. September 1, 2019.
Tex. Insurance Code § 911.301 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 911 / Section 911.301
§ 911.301. GENERAL OPERATING REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section:

(1) "Census year" means a year in which the United States Census Bureau conducts a federal decennial census.

(2) "Rural property" means property located outside an area of land subject to the taxing authority of a municipality with a population of more than 6,500, adjusted in accordance with Subsection (e).

(b) A farm mutual insurance company shall:

(1) maintain a majority of the company's total insurance in force on rural property at all times the insurance is written; and

(2) operate on a regular and special assessment basis.

(c) Except as otherwise approved by the commissioner, a farm mutual insurance company may not use more than 33 percent of the company's gross income for expenses.

(d) Property that is rural property at the time the property is originally insured continues to be classified as rural property if:

(1) the policy or policies that insure the property are written by the same farm mutual insurance company; and

(2) the coverage continues in effect without lapse of coverage for more than 60 days.

(e) On January 1 of the second year following a census year, the population limit described by Subsection (a)(2) increases or decreases by a percentage that is equal to the percentage increase or decrease in the population of this state from the previous decennial census.

(f) Not later than November 1 of the year following a census year, the commissioner shall:

(1) compute the new population limit in accordance with Subsection (e); and

(2) publish the limit on the department's Internet website.
Tex. Occupations Code § 453.152 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 453 / Section 453.152
§ 453.152. COMPLAINTS.
Status: in_force

A license holder shall at all times prominently display in the license holder's place of business a sign containing:

(1) the board's name, mailing address, and telephone number; and

(2) a statement informing consumers that a complaint against a license holder can be directed to the board.
Tex. Government Code § 432.133 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 432 / Section 432.133
§ 432.133. CONTEMPT TOWARDS GOVERNOR.
Status: in_force

A person subject to this chapter who uses contemptuous words against the governor shall be punished as a court-martial directs.
Tex. Occupations Code § 164.002 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 164 / Section 164.002
§ 164.002. BOARD DISPOSITION OF COMPLAINTS, CONTESTED CASES, AND OTHER MATTERS.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless precluded by law, the board may dispose of any complaint or matter relating to this subtitle or of any contested case by a stipulation, agreed settlement, or consent order.

(b) The board shall dispose of a complaint, contested case, or other matter in writing. If appropriate, the affected physician shall sign the writing.

(c) An agreed disposition is a disciplinary order for purposes of reporting under this subtitle and of administrative hearings and proceedings by state and federal regulatory agencies regarding the practice of medicine. An agreed disposition or a remedial plan under Section 164.0015 is public information.

(d) In civil litigation, an agreed disposition or a remedial plan under Section 164.0015 is a settlement agreement under Rule 408, Texas Rules of Evidence. This subsection does not apply to a license holder who has previously entered into an agreed disposition with the board of a different disciplinary matter or whose license the board is seeking to revoke.

(e) The board may not dismiss a complaint solely on the grounds that the case has not been scheduled for an informal meeting within the time required by Section 164.003(b).
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1116.351 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1116 / Section 1116.351
§ 1116.351. ELECTION ON EXPANSION OF DISTRICT; ORDER; NOTICE.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may order one or more elections in the area of one or more of the following independent school districts, as they were constituted on May 15, 1979, on the question of whether that area shall be included in the district:

(1) Alba-Golden;

(2) Yantis; and

(3) Hawkins.

(b) The area of a school district in which an election is held is included in the district if a majority of registered voters in that school district voting at the election approve annexation.

(c) The board shall give notice of the election in the district and in the area of each school district sought to be included in the district in the manner provided for a bond election under Section 1116.203.

(d) The election order must provide for clerks as in county elections and must state:

(1) the date of the election;

(2) the location of the polling places;

(3) the form of the ballot; and

(4) the presiding judge and alternate judge for each polling place.

(e) The board shall declare the results of the election.

(f) An election to expand district territory to include the area of a school district may not be held under this section before the first anniversary of the date of an election on the same proposition.

(g) Section 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an election ordered under this section.
Tex. Transportation Code § 504.405 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 504 / Section 504.405
§ 504.405. COUNTY JUDGES.
Status: repealed

(a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for current county judges of this state that bear the words "County Judge."

(b) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296, Sec. 247(15), eff. January 1, 2012.

(c) In this section, "county judge" means the judge of the county court established by Section 15, Article V, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Education Code § 12.127 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 12 / Section 12.127
§ 12.127. LIABILITY OF MANAGEMENT COMPANY.
Status: in_force

(a) A management company that provides management services to an open-enrollment charter school is liable for damages incurred by the state as a result of the failure of the company to comply with its contractual or other legal obligation to provide services to the school.

(b) On request of the commissioner, the attorney general may bring suit on behalf of the state against a management company liable under Subsection (a) for:

(1) damages, including any state funding received by the company and any consequential damages suffered by the state;

(2) injunctive relief; or

(3) any other equitable remedy determined to be appropriate by the court.

(c) This section is cumulative of all other remedies and does not affect:

(1) the liability of a management company to the charter holder; or

(2) the liability of a charter holder, a member of the governing body of a charter holder, or a member of the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school to the state.
Tex. Local Government Code § 293.004 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 293 / Section 293.004
§ 293.004. COUNTY BUILDING STUDY COMMITTEE.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioners court of the county by order shall create a county building study committee if the commissioners court determines that doing so is in the best interest of the county and its residents.

(b) The committee consists of five members, with one appointed by the county judge and one appointed by each county commissioner.

(c) The committee may:

(1) study the need for a new or expanded county building and the possibility of including in the building devices and characteristics to protect life and property in modern warfare;

(2) make preliminary plans and surveys concerning the requirements, costs, and feasibility of the project; and

(3) make recommendations to the commissioners court.

(d) The county may pay the cost of the study, which may not exceed $25,000.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8382.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8382 / Section 8382.106
§ 8382.106. CONTRACT TO FURTHER REGIONAL COOPERATION.
Status: in_force

The district and a municipality may contract on terms that the board and governing body of the municipality agree will further regional cooperation between the district and the municipality.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3503.057 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3503 / Section 3503.057
§ 3503.057. COMPENSATION; REIMBURSEMENT.
Status: in_force

A director is not entitled to compensation for service on the board but is entitled to be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the duties of a director.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3824.054 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3824 / Section 3824.054
§ 3824.054. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; ONE-TIME AFFIDAVIT.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by this section:

(1) a director may participate in all board votes and decisions; and

(2) Chapter 171, Local Government Code, governs conflicts of interest for directors.

(b) Section 171.004, Local Government Code, does not apply to the district. A director who has a substantial interest in a business or charitable entity that will receive a pecuniary benefit from a board action shall file a one-time affidavit declaring the interest. An additional affidavit is not required if the director's interest changes. After the affidavit is filed with the board secretary, the director may participate in a discussion or vote on that action if:

(1) a majority of the directors have a similar interest in the same entity; or

(2) all other similar business or charitable entities in the district will receive a similar pecuniary benefit.

(c) A director who is also an officer or employee of a public entity may not participate in the discussion of or vote on a matter regarding a contract with that public entity.

(d) For purposes of this section, a director has a substantial interest in a charitable entity in the same manner that a person would have a substantial interest in a business entity under Section 171.002, Local Government Code.
Tex. Government Code § 572.008 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 572 / Section 572.008
§ 572.008. VENUE.
Status: in_force

An offense under this chapter, including perjury, may be prosecuted in Travis County or in any other county in which it may be prosecuted under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Tex. Transportation Code § 705.001 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 705 / Section 705.001
§ 705.001. ALLOWING DANGEROUS DRIVER TO BORROW MOTOR VEHICLE; OFFENSE.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if the person:

(1) knowingly permits another to operate a motor vehicle owned by the person; and

(2) knows that at the time permission is given the other person's license has been suspended as a result of a:

(A) conviction of an offense under:

(i) Section 49.04, Penal Code;

(ii) Section 49.07, Penal Code, if the offense involved operation of a motor vehicle; or

(iii) Article 6701l-1, Revised Statutes, as that law existed before September 1, 1994; or

(B) failure to give a specimen under:

(i) Chapter 724; or

(ii) Chapter 434, Acts of the 61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969 (Article 6701l-5, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as that law existed before September 1, 1995.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Tex. Utilities Code § 121.151 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 121 / Section 121.151
§ 121.151. RAILROAD COMMISSION REGULATION OF GAS PIPELINES.
Status: in_force

The railroad commission shall:

(1) establish and enforce the adequate and reasonable price of gas and fair and reasonable rates of charges and rules for transporting, producing, distributing, buying, selling, and delivering gas by pipelines subject to this chapter in this state;

(2) establish fair and equitable rules for the full control and supervision of the pipelines subject to this chapter and all their holdings pertaining to the gas business in all their relations to the public, as the railroad commission determines to be proper;

(3) establish a fair and equitable division of the proceeds of the sale of gas between the companies transporting or producing the gas and the companies distributing or selling it;

(4) prescribe and enforce rules for the government and control of pipelines subject to this chapter in respect to their pipelines and producing, receiving, transporting, and distributing facilities;

(5) regulate and apportion the supply of gas between municipalities and between municipalities and corporations; and

(6) prescribe fair and reasonable rules requiring pipelines subject to this chapter to augment their supply of gas, when:

(A) the supply of gas controlled by any gas pipeline is inadequate; and

(B) the railroad commission determines that augmentation is practicable.
Tex. Transportation Code § 311.052 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 311 / Section 311.052
§ 311.052. REGULATION OF RAILROAD BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.
Status: in_force

The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may:

(1) direct and control the location and construction of railroad tracks, turnouts, and switches and prohibit the construction of those facilities in a street or alley, unless that action has been authorized by law;

(2) require that railroad tracks, turnouts, and switches be constructed in a way that interferes as little as possible with the ordinary use of a street or alley and that leaves sufficient space on each side of the tracks for the safe and convenient passage of vehicles and people;

(3) require a railroad company to keep in repair the street or alley on which their tracks are located;

(4) order a railroad company to construct and keep in repair a crossing at the place where the company's tracks intersect a street or alley;

(5) require a railroad company to construct and keep in repair a ditch, sewer, or culvert;

(6) direct or prohibit the use of or regulate the speed of a locomotive in the municipality; or

(7) direct and control the location of railroad depots in the municipality.
Tex. Occupations Code § 651.352 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 651 / Section 651.352
§ 651.352. COMMERCIAL EMBALMERS ESTABLISHMENT LICENSE REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "commercial embalmers establishment" means an establishment that:

(1) embalms for licensed funeral establishments;

(2) does not sell services or merchandise directly or at retail to the public; and

(3) meets the requirements for an embalmers license.

(b) An establishment that functions solely as a commercial embalmers establishment is required to hold a commercial embalmers establishment license but is not required to comply with the requirements for a funeral establishment license under Sections 651.351(d)(3), (d)(6), and (f).

(c) A commercial embalmers establishment may employ an embalmer only if the embalmer is licensed under this chapter.

(d) An embalming service, whether provided at a funeral establishment or other embalming facility licensed under this chapter, must comply with this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter.

(e) A licensed commercial embalmers establishment that meets the licensing requirements under Subchapter N may hold a crematory establishment license.