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Tex. Utilities Code § 40.055 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 40 / Section 40.055
§ 40.055. JURISDICTION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODY.
Status: in_force

(a) The municipal governing body or a body vested with the power to manage and operate a municipally owned utility has exclusive jurisdiction to:

(1) set all terms of access, conditions, and rates applicable to services provided by the municipally owned utility, subject to Sections 40.054 and 40.056, including nondiscriminatory and comparable rates for distribution but excluding wholesale transmission rates, terms of access, and conditions for wholesale transmission service set by the commission under this subtitle, provided that the rates for distribution access established by the municipal governing body shall be comparable to the distribution access rates that apply to the municipally owned utility and the municipally owned utility's affiliates;

(2) determine whether to unbundle any energy-related activities and, if the municipally owned utility chooses to unbundle, whether to do so structurally or functionally;

(3) reasonably determine the amount of the municipally owned utility's stranded investment;

(4) establish nondiscriminatory transition charges reasonably designed to recover the stranded investment over an appropriate period of time, provided that recovery of retail stranded costs shall be from all existing or future retail customers, including the facilities, premises, and loads of those retail customers, within the utility's geographical certificated service area as it existed on May 1, 1999;

(5) determine the extent to which the municipally owned utility will provide various customer services at the distribution level, including other services that the municipally owned utility is legally authorized to provide, or will accept the services from other providers;

(6) manage and operate the municipality's electric utility systems, including exercise of control over resource acquisition and any related expansion programs;

(7) establish and enforce service quality and reliability standards and consumer safeguards designed to protect retail electric customers, including safeguards that will accomplish the objectives of Sections 39.101(a) and (b), consistent with this chapter;

(8) determine whether a base rate reduction is appropriate for the municipally owned utility;

(9) determine any other utility matters that the municipal governing body or body vested with power to manage and operate the municipally owned utility believes should be included;

(10) make any other decisions affecting the municipally owned utility's participation in customer choice that are not inconsistent with this chapter; and

(11) determine the extent to which the municipally owned utility offers energy efficiency programs and how the programs are administered by the utility, except as provided by Section 39.9051(e).

(b) In multiply certificated areas, a retail customer, including a retail customer of an electric cooperative or a municipally owned utility, may not avoid stranded cost recovery charges by switching to another electric utility, electric cooperative, or municipally owned utility.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 553.101 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 553 / Section 553.101
§ 553.101. COORDINATION WITH APPLICABLE AGENCY.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall coordinate with all applicable agencies to oversee the operation of a program participant.

(b) The council or an applicable agency may recommend to the department that a program participant be removed from the program if the council or applicable agency finds that the program participant's artificial intelligence system:

(1) poses an undue risk to public safety or welfare;

(2) violates any federal law or regulation; or

(3) violates any state law or regulation not waived under the program.
Tex. Transportation Code § 451.101 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 451 / Section 451.101
§ 451.101. BOARD POWERS.
Status: in_force

A board may:

(1) employ a general manager and other persons necessary for the conduct of the affairs of the authority, including operating or management companies;

(2) prescribe the duties, compensation, and tenure of persons employed;

(3) remove an employee;

(4) adopt a seal for the authority;

(5) set the fiscal year for the authority;

(6) establish a complete system of accounts for the authority;

(7) invest the funds of the authority in direct or indirect obligations of the United States, this state, or a political subdivision of this state;

(8) purchase, with funds of the authority, certificates of deposit of state or national banks or savings and loan associations in this state if the certificates are secured in the same manner that the funds of a county of this state are required to be secured;

(9) designate by resolution an authorized representative of the authority to, according to terms prescribed by the board:

(A) invest authority funds; and

(B) withdraw money from authority accounts for investments; and

(10) designate by resolution an authorized representative of the authority to supervise the substitution of securities pledged to secure authority funds.
Tex. Property Code § 141.017 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 141 / Section 141.017
§ 141.017. EXEMPTION OF THIRD PERSON FROM LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

A third person, in good faith and without court order, may act on the instructions of or otherwise deal with any person purporting to make a transfer or act in the capacity of a custodian and, in the absence of knowledge, is not responsible for determining the:

(1) validity of the purported custodian's designation;

(2) propriety of, or the authority under this chapter for, any act of the purported custodian;

(3) validity or propriety under this chapter of any instrument or instructions executed or given by the person purporting to make a transfer or by the purported custodian; or

(4) propriety of the application of the minor's property delivered to the purported custodian.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9082.0104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9082 / Section 9082.0104
§ 9082.0104. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors may not hold an election under Section 9082.0103 until each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located has consented by ordinance or resolution to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district.
Tex. Government Code § 508.255 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 508 / Section 508.255
§ 508.255. STATUS AS FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.
Status: in_force

(a) After the issuance of a warrant, a person for whose return a warrant was issued is a fugitive from justice.

(b) The law relating to the right of the state to extradite a person and return a fugitive from justice and Article 42.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, relating to the waiver of all legal requirements to obtain extradition of a fugitive from justice from another state to this state, are not impaired by this chapter and remain in full force and effect.
Tex. Water Code § 63.372 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 63 / Section 63.372
§ 63.372. PETITION.
Status: in_force

Before territory is annexed to the district, a petition signed by 50 or a majority of the electors residing in the adjacent territory proposed to be annexed shall be presented to the commission requesting an election in the adjacent territory to determine whether or not the territory will be annexed and whether or not it will assume its pro rata part of the outstanding bonded debt of the district.
Tex. Water Code § 63.096 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 63 / Section 63.096
§ 63.096. COMMISSIONER'S OATH.
Status: in_force

Each commissioner shall subscribe an oath of office containing the applicable conditions provided by law for members of the commissioners court.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8165.053 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8165 / Section 8165.053
§ 8165.053. VACANCIES.
Status: in_force

A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled by appointment of the board until the next election for directors. If the position is not scheduled to be filled at the election, the person elected to fill the position shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 252.098 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 252 / Section 252.098
§ 252.098. CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO NOTIFY.
Status: in_force

(a) A facility commits an offense if the facility knowingly fails to comply with Section 252.097.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 247.070 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 247 / Section 247.070
§ 247.070. GUARDIANSHIP ORDERS.
Status: in_force

An assisted living facility shall make a reasonable effort to request a copy of any court order appointing a guardian of a resident or a resident's estate from the resident's nearest relative or the person responsible for the resident's support. An assisted living facility that receives a copy of a court order appointing a guardian of a resident or a resident's estate shall maintain a copy of the court order in the resident's medical records.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 248A.159 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 248A / Section 248A.159
§ 248A.159. ADMISSION FORMS.
Status: in_force

(a) Before admission to a center, the center may obtain all required parent or legal guardian signatures for a patient on one consent document.

(b) The consent document must illustrate the involvement of the parent or legal guardian in developing and establishing the care and treatment to be provided to the patient in the center.
Tex. Education Code § 54.5111 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 54 / Section 54.5111
§ 54.5111. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE FEE; SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Status: in_force

(a) The board of regents of the Texas State University System may charge each student enrolled at Southwest Texas State University an environmental service fee in an initial amount not to exceed $1 per semester of the regular term or term of the summer session. The fee may not be imposed unless approved by a majority vote of the students at the university voting in an election held for that purpose at the same time and using the same ballot as a student government election.

(b) Not more than once in an academic year, the board of regents may increase the amount of the fee authorized by this section to cover increased operating costs of environmental services funded from revenue from the fee. The board may not increase the amount of the fee unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of the students at the university voting in an election held for that purpose in which at least 1,000 students at the university cast ballots and that is held at the same time and using the same ballot as a student government election. The total amount of the increased fee may not exceed:

(1) $6 per student for each regular semester or for each term of the summer session not covered by Subdivision (2); or

(2) $3 per student for each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.

(c) A fee imposed under this section may be used only to provide environmental improvements at the university through services such as recycling, transportation, employment, product purchasing, matching funds for grants, planning and maintenance, and irrigation.

(d) The university may not use revenue from the fee imposed under this section to reduce or replace other money allocated by the university for environmental projects.

(e) The university shall retain any fee revenue that exceeds the amount necessary to cover current operating expenses for environmental services and any interest generated from that revenue. The university may use the excess revenue and interest generated from that revenue only for the purposes provided by Subsection (c).
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1093.208 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1093 / Section 1093.208
§ 1093.208. BONDS EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.
Status: in_force

The following are exempt from taxation by this state or a political subdivision of this state:

(1) bonds issued by the district;

(2) the transfer and issuance of the bonds; or

(3) profits made in the sale of the bonds.
Tex. Government Code § 825.004 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 825 / Section 825.004
§ 825.004. TERMS OF OFFICE; FILLING VACANCIES.
Status: in_force

(a) Members of the board of trustees hold office for terms of six years.

(b) A vacancy in the office of a trustee shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner that the office was previously filled.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1101.006 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1101 / Section 1101.006
§ 1101.006. APPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT.
Status: in_force

The Texas Real Estate Commission is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the commission is abolished and this chapter and Chapter 1102 of this code and Chapter 221, Property Code, expire September 1, 2033.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6611.202 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6611 / Section 6611.202
§ 6611.202. LIMITATION ON DEBT.
Status: in_force

The total principal amount of bonds issued under Section 6611.201 that the district may have outstanding at any time may not exceed 15 percent of the assessed value of all taxable property in the district as shown by the most recent appraisal roll of the district.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1575.1701 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1575 / Section 1575.1701
§ 1575.1701. EXEMPTION FROM PREAUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS PROVIDING CERTAIN HEALTH CARE SERVICES.
Status: in_force

A preauthorization process used by a health benefit plan provided under this chapter is subject to the same limitations and requirements provided by Subchapter N, Chapter 4201, for a preauthorization process used by an insurer.
Tex. Transportation Code § 174.158 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 174 / Section 174.158
§ 174.158. EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

(a) A district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire:

(1) real property in fee simple; or

(2) an interest in real property less than fee simple in, on, under, or above land, including an easement, right-of-way, or right of use of airspace or subsurface space.

(b) The power of eminent domain under this section does not apply to:

(1) land under the jurisdiction of the department; or

(2) a rail line owned by a common carrier or municipality.

(c) To the extent possible, the district shall use existing rail or intermodal transportation corridors for the alignment of its system.

(d) An eminent domain proceeding is begun by the board's adoption of a resolution declaring that the district's acquisition of the property or interest described in the resolution:

(1) is a public necessity; and

(2) is necessary and proper for the construction, extension, improvement, or development of commuter rail facilities and is in the public interest.

(e) The resolution is conclusive evidence of the public necessity of the proposed acquisition and that the real property or interest in property is necessary for public use.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 52.0003 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 52 / Section 52.0003
§ 52.0003. COMPOSITION OF TASK FORCE.
Status: in_force

The task force is composed of the following members appointed by the executive commissioner:

(1) two members from community-based organizations with experience addressing the needs of individuals with sickle cell disease;

(2) two physicians specializing in hematology;

(3) three members of the public, one of whom has sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait and two of whom either have sickle cell disease or are a parent of a person with sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait;

(4) one representative of a health-related institution;

(5) one representative of the Texas Education Agency;

(6) one representative of the commission;

(7) one physician with experience addressing the needs of individuals with sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait;

(8) one researcher from a public health-related or academic institution with experience addressing sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait; and

(9) one health care professional with experience addressing the needs of individuals with sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait.
Tex. Government Code § 436.1533 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 436 / Section 436.1533
§ 436.1533. USE OF LOAN PROCEEDS TO PAY OTHER DEBT INCURRED TO FINANCE PROJECT.
Status: in_force

A defense community awarded a loan of financial assistance from the Texas military value revolving loan account for an eligible project under this subchapter may use a portion of the loan proceeds to pay off other debt, including commercial debt, the defense community incurred for purposes of financing the project.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8829.055 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8829 / Section 8829.055
§ 8829.055. BOARD VACANCY.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall appoint a replacement to fill a vacancy in the office of any director.

(b) The appointed replacement serves until the next directors' election.

(c) If the position is not scheduled to be filled at the next election, the person elected to fill the position serves only for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7952.005 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7952 / Section 7952.005
§ 7952.005. 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 § 1111.056 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1111 / Section 1111.056
§ 1111.056. OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall select from among the managers a presiding officer.

(b) A presiding officer pro tem shall preside in the absence of the presiding officer.

(c) The district administrator or any manager may be appointed secretary.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3916.212 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3916 / Section 3916.212
§ 3916.212. TAXES FOR BONDS.
Status: in_force

At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, while all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 63.007 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 63 / Section 63.007
§ 63.007. DISALLOWANCE OF MATCHING FUNDS FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Status: in_force

Expenditures made to provide health benefits plan coverage under this chapter may not be included for the purpose of determining the state children's health insurance expenditures, as that term is defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 1397ee(d)(2)(B), as amended.
Tex. Insurance Code § 4102.060 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 4102 / Section 4102.060
§ 4102.060. EXAMINATION FORM AND TIME.
Status: in_force

(a) The answers of an examinee to an examination required under this chapter shall be made by the examinee in writing. A written examination may be supplemented by oral examination.

(b) The examination shall be given at times and places within the state as the commissioner considers necessary to reasonably serve the convenience of both the commissioner and examinees.

(c) The commissioner may require a waiting period of reasonable duration before an examinee who fails the examination, but who is otherwise qualified, may be reexamined.

(d) The scheduling and administration of examinations required under Section 4102.057 shall be effected by persons approved by the commissioner.
Tex. Election Code § 213.051 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 213 / Section 213.051
§ 213.051. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies to recounts in elections for which there is a final canvass at the state level.
Tex. Property Code § 92.004 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 92 / Section 92.004
§ 92.004. HARASSMENT.
Status: in_force

A party who files or prosecutes a suit under Subchapter B, D, E, or F in bad faith or for purposes of harassment is liable to the defendant for one month's rent plus $100 and for attorney's fees.
Tex. Education Code § 30B.005 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 30B / Section 30B.005
§ 30B.005. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY.
Status: in_force

A student enrolled in a virtual or hybrid course, program, or campus offered under this chapter may participate in an extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school district or open-enrollment charter school in which the student is enrolled or by the University Interscholastic League in the same manner as other district or school students.
Tex. Insurance Code § 2054.051 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2054 / Section 2054.051
§ 2054.051. BOARD OF DIRECTORS; COMPOSITION.
Status: in_force

(a) The company is governed by a board composed of nine members.

(b) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint five board members. The company's policyholders shall elect the remaining members.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 761.001 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 761 / Section 761.001
§ 761.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Campus credit card marketing activity":

(A) means any activity:

(i) conducted by an agent or employee of a credit card issuer on the campus of a postsecondary educational institution; and

(ii) designed to encourage and enable students to apply for a credit card; and

(B) includes the act of placing on the campus a display or poster together with a form that can be returned to the credit card issuer as a credit card application, even if an employee or agent of the credit card issuer is not present at the display.

(2) "Credit card" means a card or device issued under an agreement by which the issuer gives to a cardholder the right to obtain credit from the issuer or another person.

(3) "Credit card issuer" means a lender, including a financial institution, or a merchant that receives applications and issues credit cards to individuals.

(4) "Governing board" means the body charged with policy direction of any postsecondary educational institution, including a board of directors, a board of regents, a board of trustees, and an independent school district board that is charged with policy direction of a public junior college.

(5) "Postsecondary educational institution" means:

(A) an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;

(B) a private or independent institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; or

(C) a private postsecondary educational institution as defined by Section 61.302, Education Code.
Tex. Occupations Code § 603.409 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 603 / Section 603.409
§ 603.409. REFUND.
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to Subsection (b), the medical board may order a license holder to pay a refund to a consumer as provided in an agreement resulting from an informal settlement conference instead of or in addition to imposing an administrative penalty under this chapter.

(b) The amount of a refund ordered as provided in an agreement resulting from an informal settlement conference may not exceed the amount the consumer paid to the license holder for a service regulated by this chapter. The medical board may not require payment of other damages or estimate harm in a refund order.
Tex. Local Government Code § 143.011 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 143 / Section 143.011
§ 143.011. DECISIONS AND RECORDS.
Status: in_force

(a) Each concurring commission member shall sign a decision issued by the commission.

(b) The commission shall keep records of each hearing or case that comes before the commission.

(c) Each rule, opinion, directive, decision, or order issued by the commission must be written and constitutes a public record that the commission shall retain on file.