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Tex. Water Code § 7.167 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 7 / Section 7.167
§ 7.167. FALSE STATEMENTS RELATING TO MEDICAL WASTE.
Status: in_force

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

(1) makes a false material statement, or knowingly causes or knowingly allows to be made a false material statement, to a person who prepares a regulated medical waste label, manifest, application, permit, plan, registration, record, report, or other document required by an order or a rule of the appropriate regulatory agency; or

(2) omits material information, or causes or allows material information to be omitted, from a regulated medical waste label, manifest, application, permit, plan, registration, record, report, or other document required by an order or a rule of the appropriate regulatory agency.

(b) An offense under this section is punishable for an individual under Section 7.187(1)(B) or Section 7.187(2)(D) or both. If it is shown on the trial of an individual that the individual has been previously convicted of an offense under this section, the offense is punishable for an individual under Section 7.187(1)(C) or Section 7.187(2)(E) or both.

(c) An offense under this section is punishable for a person other than an individual under Section 7.187(1)(B). If it is shown on the trial of a person other than an individual that the person has been previously convicted of an offense under this section, the offense is punishable under Section 7.187(1)(C).
Tex. Government Code § 2054.601 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2054 / Section 2054.601
§ 2054.601. USE OF NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGY.
Status: in_force

Each state agency and local government shall, in the administration of the agency or local government, consider using next generation technologies, including cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, robotic process automation, and artificial intelligence.
Tex. Transportation Code § 370.354 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 370 / Section 370.354
§ 370.354. NOTICE OF HEARING ON FARE OR SERVICE CHANGE.
Status: in_force

(a) After calling a public hearing required by Section 370.352, the authority shall:

(1) at least 30 days before the date of the hearing, publish notice of the hearing at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory of the authority; and

(2) post notice in each transit vehicle in service on any transit route affected by the proposed change for at least two weeks within 30 days before the date of the hearing.

(b) The notice must contain:

(1) a description of each proposed fare or service change, as appropriate;

(2) the time and place of the hearing; and

(3) if the hearing is required under Section 370.352(c), a description of the latest proposed change and the previous changes.

(c) The requirement for a public hearing under Section 370.352 is satisfied at a public hearing required by federal law if:

(1) the notice requirements of this section are met; and

(2) the proposed fare or service change is addressed at the meeting.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 201.001 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 201 / Section 201.001
§ 201.001. POLICY.
Status: in_force

It is declared to be the public policy and in the public interest of the State of Texas to protect and preserve all caves on or under any of the land in the State of Texas, including tidelands, submerged land, and the bed of the sea within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas.
Tex. Finance Code § 32.502 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 32 / Section 32.502
§ 32.502. CONVERSION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTION INTO STATE BANK.
Status: in_force

(a) A financial institution, as that term is defined by Section 201.101, may apply to the banking commissioner for conversion into a state bank on a form prescribed by the banking commissioner and accompanied by any required fee if the institution follows the procedures prescribed by the laws of the United States, this state, another state, or another country governing the exit of the financial institution for the purpose of conversion into a state bank from the regulatory system applicable before the conversion. A banking association or limited banking association may convert its organizational form under this section.

(b) A financial institution applying to convert into a state bank may receive a certificate of authority to do business as a state bank if the banking commissioner finds that:

(1) the financial institution is not engaging in a pattern or practice of unsafe and unsound banking practices;

(2) the financial institution has adequate capitalization for a state bank to engage in business at the same locations as the financial institution is engaged in business before the conversion;

(3) the financial institution can be expected to operate profitably after the conversion;

(4) the officers and directors of the financial institution as a group have sufficient banking experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, and integrity to justify a belief that the financial institution will operate as a state bank in compliance with law;

(5) each principal shareholder has sufficient experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, and integrity to justify a belief that the financial institution will be free from improper or unlawful influence or interference with respect to the financial institution's operation as a state bank in compliance with law; and

(6) if the converting financial institution did not have general depository powers and the state bank will have those powers, the factors set forth in Section 32.003(b) are satisfied.

(c) The banking commissioner may:

(1) request additional information considered necessary to an informed decision under this section;

(2) perform an examination of the converting financial institution at the expense of the converting financial institution; and

(3) require that examination fees be paid before a certificate of authority is issued.

(d) In connection with the application, the converting financial institution must:

(1) submit a statement of the law governing the exit of the financial institution from the regulatory system applicable before the conversion and the terms of the transition into a state bank; and

(2) demonstrate that all applicable law has been fully satisfied.
Tex. Insurance Code § 4102.154 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 4102 / Section 4102.154
§ 4102.154. USE OF BADGE PROHIBITED.
Status: in_force

A license holder may not use a badge in connection with the official activities of the license holder's business.
Tex. Labor Code § 410.119 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 410 / Section 410.119
§ 410.119. EFFECT OF AWARD.
Status: in_force

(a) An arbitrator's award is final and binding on all parties. Except as provided by Section 410.121, there is no right to appeal.

(b) An arbitrator's award is a final order of the division.
Tex. Occupations Code § 651.252 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 651 / Section 651.252
§ 651.252. LICENSE APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) An applicant for a funeral director's license or an embalmer's license must submit a written license application to the commission and pay the application fee.

(b) The commission may require an applicant to appear before at least one member of the commission for approval of the person's application. The approval is subject to review by the entire commission.

(c) The commission shall keep a permanent, alphabetical record of each license application and the action taken on the application. The record must indicate the current status of each application and license issued.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8011.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8011 / Section 8011.052
§ 8011.052. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties provided by the general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Government Code § 325.0124 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 325 / Section 325.0124
§ 325.0124. REVIEW OF AGENCY'S SALE OF PERSONAL DATA.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual that directly or indirectly identifies the individual by reference to:

(1) an identifier for the individual, including a name, an identification number, location information, or an online identifier; or

(2) one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of the individual.

(b) As part of its review of a state agency, the commission shall determine whether the state agency sells personal data the agency possesses. If the state agency sells personal data, the commission shall determine:

(1) to whom the personal data is sold;

(2) to the extent possible, the purpose for which the personal data is sold;

(3) the amount the state agency receives for the sale of the personal data; and

(4) the law that authorizes the state agency to sell the personal data.

(c) The commission shall recommend prohibiting the sale of personal data by a state agency, unless the commission identifies a compelling state or public interest justifying the state agency's authority to sell the personal data. If the commission recommends continuing the state agency's authority to sell personal data, the commission shall make any recommendations it considers necessary to protect the personal data from improper use and dissemination.
Tex. Finance Code § 152.303 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 152 / Section 152.303
§ 152.303. RECEIPTS.
Status: in_force

(a) This section does not apply to:

(1) money received for money transmission subject to the federal requirements for remittance transfers under 12 C.F.R. Part 1005, Subpart B;

(2) money received for money transmission that is not primarily for personal, family, or household purposes;

(3) money received for money transmission under a written agreement between a money transmission licensee and a payee to process payments for goods or services provided by the payee; or

(4) payroll processing services.

(b) In this section, "receipt" means a paper receipt, electronic record, or other written confirmation.

(c) For a transaction conducted in person, a receipt may be provided electronically if the sender requests or agrees to receive an electronic receipt. For a transaction conducted electronically or by phone, a receipt may be provided electronically. All electronic receipts shall be provided in a retainable form.

(d) A money transmission licensee or the licensee's authorized delegate shall provide the sender a receipt for money received for money transmission services.

(e) A receipt must contain, as applicable:

(1) the name of the sender;

(2) the name of the designated recipient;

(3) the date of the transaction;

(4) the unique transaction or identification number;

(5) the name of the money transmission licensee, the licensee's NMLS Unique ID, the licensee's business address, and the licensee's customer service telephone number;

(6) the amount of the transaction in United States dollars;

(7) any fee charged by the money transmission licensee to the sender for the transaction; and

(8) any taxes collected by the money transmission licensee from the sender for the transaction.

(f) The receipt required by this section must be in English and in a language other than English if the money transmission licensee or authorized delegate principally uses that language to advertise, solicit, or negotiate, either orally or in writing, for a transaction conducted in person, electronically, or by phone.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 161.062 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 161 / Section 161.062
§ 161.062. GROUNDS FOR LICENSE DENIAL.
Status: in_force

The agency responsible for licensing and regulating a person subject to this subchapter may, in addition to any other authority granted, deny a license application or other permission to practice if the person violates this subchapter.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 6.002 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 6 / Section 6.002
§ 6.002. CITIES EXEMPT FROM SECURITY FOR COURT COSTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Security for costs may not be required of an incorporated city or town of this state in an action, suit, or proceeding.

(b) A municipality may institute and prosecute suits without giving security for cost and may appeal from judgment without giving supersedeas or cost bond.
Tex. Water Code § 16.235 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 16 / Section 16.235
§ 16.235. DISTRICTS TO FILE INFORMATION WITH COMMISSION.
Status: in_force

Immediately before having its bonds approved by the attorney general, each drainage district and levee improvement district shall file with the commission, on forms furnished by the commission, a complete record showing each step in the organization of the district, the amount of bonds to be issued, and a description of the area and boundaries of the district, accompanied by plans, maps, and profiles of improvements and the district engineer's estimates and reports on them.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 9.207 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 9 / Section 9.207
§ 9.207. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SECURED PARTY HAVING POSSESSION OR CONTROL OF COLLATERAL.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), a secured party shall use reasonable care in the custody and preservation of collateral in the secured party's possession. In the case of chattel paper or an instrument, reasonable care includes taking necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties unless otherwise agreed.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), if a secured party has possession of collateral:

(1) reasonable expenses, including the cost of insurance and payment of taxes or other charges, incurred in the custody, preservation, use, or operation of the collateral are chargeable to the debtor and are secured by the collateral;

(2) the risk of accidental loss or damage is on the debtor to the extent of any deficiency in any effective insurance coverage;

(3) the secured party shall keep the collateral identifiable, but fungible collateral may be commingled; and

(4) the secured party may use or operate the collateral:

(A) for the purpose of preserving the collateral or its value;

(B) as permitted by an order of a court having competent jurisdiction; or

(C) except in the case of consumer goods, in the manner and to the extent agreed by the debtor.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), a secured party having possession of collateral or control of collateral under Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.106, or 9.107:

(1) may hold as additional security any proceeds, except money or funds, received from the collateral;

(2) shall apply money or funds received from the collateral to reduce the secured obligation, unless remitted to the debtor; and

(3) may create a security interest in the collateral.

(d) If the secured party is a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes or a consignor:

(1) Subsection (a) does not apply unless the secured party is entitled under an agreement:

(A) to charge back uncollected collateral; or

(B) otherwise to full or limited recourse against the debtor or a secondary obligor based on the nonpayment or other default of an account debtor or other obligor on the collateral; and

(2) Subsections (b) and (c) do not apply.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8477.302 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8477 / Section 8477.302
§ 8477.302. MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION; NOTICE.
Status: repealed

(a) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 155 (H.B. 347), Sec. 2.01, eff. May 24, 2019.

(b) Not later than the 30th day after the date a municipality adopts a resolution or ordinance consenting to the creation of the district, the municipality shall file, in the real property records of the county in which the land to be included in the district is located, a notice to purchasers of real property in the district that describes:

(1) the municipality's authority and intention to annex the district; and

(2) the anticipated date of the annexation.

(c) After the notice is filed, a person who proposes to sell or otherwise convey real property in the district must include the information contained in the municipality's notice in the Notice to Purchasers required by Section 49.452, Water Code.
Tex. Government Code § 617.003 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 617 / Section 617.003
§ 617.003. PROHIBITION ON STRIKES BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.
Status: in_force

(a) Public employees may not strike or engage in an organized work stoppage against the state or a political subdivision of the state.

(b) A public employee who violates Subsection (a) forfeits all civil service rights, reemployment rights, and any other rights, benefits, and privileges the employee enjoys as a result of public employment or former public employment.

(c) The right of an individual to cease work may not be abridged if the individual is not acting in concert with others in an organized work stoppage.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8334.107 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8334 / Section 8334.107
§ 8334.107. DIVISION OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may be divided into two or more new districts only if the district:

(1) has never issued any bonds; and

(2) is not imposing ad valorem taxes.

(b) This chapter applies to any new district created by the division of the district, and a new district has all the powers and duties of the district.

(c) Any new district created by the division of the district may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.

(d) The board, on its own motion or on receipt of a petition signed by the owner or owners of a majority of the assessed value of the real property in the district, may adopt an order dividing the district.

(e) An order dividing the district must:

(1) name each new district;

(2) include the metes and bounds description of the territory of each new district;

(3) appoint temporary directors for each new district; and

(4) provide for the division of assets and liabilities between or among the new districts.

(f) On or before the 30th day after the date of adoption of an order dividing the district, the district shall file the order with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and record the order in the real property records of each county in which the district is located.

(g) Any new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by Section 49.102, Water Code.

(h) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section 8334.004 acts as municipal consent to the creation of any new district under this section and the inclusion of land in the new district.

(i) Any new district created by the division of the district must hold an election as required by this chapter to obtain voter approval before the district may impose a maintenance tax or issue bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes.

(j) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the new district shall provide the election date and results to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 12.029 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 12 / Section 12.029
§ 12.029. MINORITY AND FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS CONTRACTS.
Status: repealed

(a) The department shall establish by rule policies to encourage minority and female-owned small businesses to bid for contract and open market purchases of the department and to assist those businesses in that bidding. The department shall review the policies periodically to correct any deficiencies in the policies.

(b) The department annually shall determine the number, types, and value of contracts awarded to minority and female-owned small businesses in the year preceding the determination and the ratio of the number and the value of those contracts to the number and the value of all contracts awarded by the department in that year.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083, Sec. 25(2), eff. June 17, 2011.

(d) In this section, "minority and female-owned small business" means a business enterprise:

(1) that is independently owned and operated, that was formed for the purpose of making a profit, and that has fewer than 100 employees and less than $1 million in annual gross receipts; and

(2) that is controlled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged persons who own at least 51 percent of the business enterprise and are socially disadvantaged because of their identification as members of certain groups, including women, black Americans, Mexican Americans and other Americans of Hispanic origin, Asian Americans, and American Indians.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 11.359 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 11 / Section 11.359
§ 11.359. WAIVER OF GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY; PERMISSION TO SUE.
Status: in_force

(a) Sovereign immunity to suit is waived and abolished to the extent of liability created by this subchapter.

(b) A person having a claim under this subchapter may sue the department for damages allowed by this subchapter.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1131.801 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1131 / Section 1131.801
§ 1131.801. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies to any group life insurance policy issued and delivered under the laws of this state other than a policy issued and delivered to a creditor as provided by Section 1131.057 or other law providing for credit life insurance.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8380.051 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8380 / Section 8380.051
§ 8380.051. GOVERNING BODY; TERMS.
Status: in_force

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

(b) Except as provided by Section 8380.052, directors serve staggered four-year terms.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 14.064 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 14 / Section 14.064
§ 14.064. CERTAIN LOADOUT FEES PROHIBITED.
Status: in_force

(a) A warehouse operator may not charge a fee for loading out grain if the loadout was the result of the misconduct of the warehouse operator.

(b) Misconduct under this section includes:

(1) violation of this chapter as established by final, unappealable order of the commissioner;

(2) conviction of a crime, including a plea of nolo contendere, described as an offense under this chapter; and

(3) conviction of a crime, including a plea of nolo contendere, described as an offense under the Penal Code and involving any type of fraud or theft related to the storing, shipping, handling, sale, or purchase of grain or the sale or purchase of grain handling, shipping, or storage equipment or warehouse structures or other assets.

(c) A loadout fee collected during a period of suspension of a warehouse operator's license by the department, after revocation of a warehouse operator's license, or during a period in which criminal charges are pending against a warehouse operator, shall be placed in an escrow account by the warehouse operator until:

(1) the department's suspension is lifted;

(2) the prosecutor ceases to pursue criminal charges;

(3) the indictment or information is dismissed by a court; or

(4) the warehouse operator is acquitted.

(d) If misconduct is finally determined to have occurred as provided by Subsection (b), the loadout fees placed in escrow shall be returned to the person originally paying those fees. The loadout fees placed in escrow shall be returned to the warehouse operator if the warehouse operator is found not to have committed misconduct by acquittal, by the dismissal of the criminal charges, or by final order of the commissioner.
Tex. Government Code § 434.0205 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 434 / Section 434.0205
§ 434.0205. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION PROVIDED TO COMMISSION.
Status: in_force

Any information provided by a person to the commission to receive services or participate in commission programs is confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552.