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Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7980A.0104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7980A / Section 7980A.0104
§ 7980A.0104. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors may not hold an election under Section 7980A.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 as required by applicable law.
Tex. Local Government Code § 261.002 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 261 / Section 261.002
§ 261.002. PROCEDURE.
Status: in_force

The condemnation proceedings must be instituted in the name of the county and under the direction of the commissioners court.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 464.006 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 464 / Section 464.006
§ 464.006. INSPECTIONS.
Status: in_force

The department or its representative may without notice enter the premises of a treatment facility at reasonable times, including any time treatment services are provided, to conduct an inspection or investigation the department considers necessary.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 579.208 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 579 / Section 579.208
§ 579.208. INSPECTION OF AUDIT AND DISTRICT RECORDS.
Status: in_force

The audit and other district records shall be open to inspection at the principal office of each creating hospital district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1080.151 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1080 / Section 1080.151
§ 1080.151. BUDGET.
Status: in_force

The board shall prepare a budget that includes:

(1) proposed expenditures and disbursements;

(2) estimated receipts and collections for the next fiscal year; and

(3) the amount of taxes required to be imposed to meet the proposed budget.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 201.76 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 201 / Section 201.76
§ 201.76. REFUNDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may make refunds for tax stamps in all cases where:

(1) stamped liquor is returned to the distillery or manufacturer, on certification by a duly authorized representative of the commission who inspected the shipment;

(2) stamped liquor has been destroyed, on certification by a duly authorized representative of the commission that the liquor has been destroyed;

(3) a person who has been authorized to purchase tax stamps and is in possession of unused tax stamps on discontinuation of business; and

(4) tax stamps of improper value have been erroneously affixed to a bottle or container of liquor and those tax stamps have been destroyed in a manner prescribed by the commission.

(b) To obtain a refund under this section, it must be shown that the tax stamps for which a refund is asked were purchased from the commission and that the refund is made to a person authorized to purchase tax stamps from the commission. No other refunds for tax stamps are allowed.

(c) Sufficient funds to pay refunds for tax stamps may be appropriated from the revenue derived from the sale of the tax stamps before that revenue has been allocated.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.0045 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 191 / Section 191.0045
§ 191.0045. FEES.
Status: repealed

(a) The department may collect fees for providing services to the public and performing other activities in connection with maintenance of the vital statistics system, including:

(1) performing searches of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, annulment, and other records;

(2) preparing and issuing copies and certified copies of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, annulment, and other records; and

(3) filing a record, amendment, or affidavit under this title.

(b) The executive commissioner by rule may prescribe a schedule of fees for vital statistics services. The aggregate of the amounts of the fees may not exceed the cost of administering the vital statistics system.

(c) The department shall refund to an applicant any fee received for services that the department cannot perform. If the money has been deposited to the credit of the vital statistics account in the general revenue fund, the comptroller shall issue a warrant against the fund for refund of the payment on presentation of a claim signed by the state registrar.

(d) A local registrar or county clerk who issues a certified copy of a birth or death certificate shall collect the same fees as collected by the department, including the additional fee required under Subsection (e), except as provided by Subsections (g) and (h).

(e) In addition to fees charged by the department under Subsection (b), the department shall collect an additional $2 fee for each of the following:

(1) issuing a certified copy of a certificate of birth;

(2) issuing a wallet-sized certification of birth; and

(3) conducting a search for a certificate of birth.

(f) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 263, Sec. 5(1), eff. May 30, 2005.

(g) A local registrar or county clerk that on March 31, 1995, was collecting a fee for the issuance of a certified copy of a birth certificate that exceeded the fee collected by the department for the same type of certificate may continue to do so but shall not raise this fee until the fee collected by the department exceeds the fee collected by the local registrar or county clerk. A local registrar or county clerk to which this subsection applies shall collect the additional fee as required under Subsection (e).

(h) In addition to other fees collected under this section, a local registrar or county clerk may collect a fee not to exceed $1 for:

(1) preserving vital statistics records maintained by the registrar or county clerk, including birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, and annulment records;

(2) training registrar or county clerk employees regarding vital statistics records; and

(3) ensuring the safety and security of vital statistics records.

(i) A fee under this section shall be collected by the registrar or county clerk on the issuance of a vital statistics record, including a record issued through a Remote Birth Access site.
Tex. Election Code § 13.145 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 13 / Section 13.145
§ 13.145. UNLAWFUL DELIVERY OF CERTIFICATE.
Status: in_force

(a) A voter registrar commits an offense if the registrar knowingly delivers a registration certificate to a person other than the applicant or the applicant's agent appointed under Section 13.003.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
Tex. Estates Code § 253.002 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 253 / Section 253.002
§ 253.002. REVOCATION OF WILL.
Status: in_force

A written will, or a clause or devise in a written will, may not be revoked, except by a subsequent will, codicil, or declaration in writing that is executed with like formalities, or by the testator destroying or canceling the same, or causing it to be destroyed or canceled in the testator's presence.
Tex. Estates Code § 1302.002 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 1302 / Section 1302.002
§ 1302.002. APPLICATION TO ESTABLISH SUBACCOUNT.
Status: in_force

The following persons may apply to the court for the establishment of a subaccount for the benefit of a minor or other incapacitated person, an alleged incapacitated person, or a disabled person who is not an incapacitated person:

(1) the guardian of the incapacitated person;

(2) a person who has filed an application for the appointment of a guardian for the alleged incapacitated person;

(3) an attorney ad litem or guardian ad litem appointed to represent:

(A) the incapacitated person who is a ward or that person's interests; or

(B) the alleged incapacitated person who does not have a guardian; or

(4) the disabled person.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 136.012 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 136 / Section 136.012
§ 136.012. SHOOTING IN CERTAIN PLACES.
Status: in_force

(a) No person may shoot a pistol or rifle in, on, along, or across the water of the Trinity River, Wallisville Reservoir, and Lake Anahuac in Chambers County.

(b) No person may shoot a pistol, crossbow, bow and arrow, shotgun, or rifle in, on, along, or across the water of Oyster Bayou in Chambers County from State Highway 65 south to the mouth of Oyster Bayou in East Bay.

(c) The water described in Subsections (a) and (b) of this section are part of the public fresh water of this state suited and adapted to the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish, and this section is to aid in the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8091.0306 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8091 / Section 8091.0306
§ 8091.0306. 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) A 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) The board may adopt an order dividing the district before or after the date the board holds an election under Section 8091.0103 to confirm the district's creation.

(f) An order dividing the district shall:

(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 the new districts.

(g) 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 commission and record the order in the real property records of each county in which the district is located.

(h) A new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by Section 8091.0103.

(i) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the new district shall provide the election date and results to the commission.

(j) 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.

(k) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section 8091.0104 acts as municipal consent to the creation of any new district created by the division of the district and to the inclusion of land in the new district.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 302.201 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 302 / Section 302.201
§ 302.201. INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE POSTED OR AVAILABLE AT SELLER'S BUSINESS LOCATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A seller shall post the registration certificate in a conspicuous place at the location for which the certificate is issued.

(b) A seller shall post in close proximity to the registration certificate the name of each individual in charge of the location.

(c) A seller shall make available at each of the seller's business locations a copy of the entire registration statement and any addenda for inspection by a purchaser or by a representative of a government agency.
Tex. Penal Code § 42.08 — TX Code / Code pe / Chapter 42 / Section 42.08
§ 42.08. ABUSE OF CORPSE.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if the person, without legal authority, knowingly:

(1) disinters, disturbs, damages, dissects, in whole or in part, carries away, or treats in an offensive manner a human corpse;

(2) conceals a human corpse knowing it to be illegally disinterred;

(3) sells or buys a human corpse or in any way traffics in a human corpse;

(4) transmits or conveys, or procures to be transmitted or conveyed, a human corpse to a place outside the state; or

(5) vandalizes, damages, or treats in an offensive manner the space in which a human corpse has been interred or otherwise permanently laid to rest.

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony, except that an offense under Subsection (a)(5) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(c) In this section, "human corpse" includes:

(1) any portion of a human corpse;

(2) the cremated remains of a human corpse; or

(3) any portion of the cremated remains of a human corpse.

(d) If conduct constituting an offense under this section also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the actor may be prosecuted under either section or both sections.

(e) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor:

(1) as a member or agent of a cemetery organization, removed or damaged anything that had been placed in or on any portion of the organization's cemetery in violation of the rules of the organization; or

(2) removed anything:

(A) placed in the cemetery in violation of the rules of the cemetery organization; or

(B) placed in the cemetery by or with the cemetery organization's consent but that, in the organization's judgment, had become wrecked, unsightly, or dilapidated.

(f) In this section, "cemetery" and "cemetery organization" have the meanings assigned by Section 711.001, Health and Safety Code.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 364.002 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 364 / Section 364.002
§ 364.002. PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to authorize a cooperative effort by counties, public agencies, and other persons for the safe and economical collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste to control pollution in this state.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1041.201 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1041 / Section 1041.201
§ 1041.201. GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.
Status: in_force

The board may issue and sell general obligation bonds in the name and on the faith and credit of the district for any purpose relating to:

(1) the purchase, construction, acquisition, repair, or renovation of buildings or improvements; and

(2) equipping buildings or improvements for hospital purposes.
Tex. Government Code § 614.156 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 614 / Section 614.156
§ 614.156. RENEWAL OF LISTING.
Status: in_force

The service shall renew a fire department's listing annually.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1701.056 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1701 / Section 1701.056
§ 1701.056. USE OF DISAPPROVED FORM PROHIBITED.
Status: in_force

An insurer who receives written notice that a form filed by the insurer has been disapproved by the commissioner shall immediately stop using the form.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 62.002 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 62 / Section 62.002
§ 62.002. MULTICOUNTY FACILITIES.
Status: in_force

(a) The purpose of this section is to enable counties jointly to provide better probation services and detention and diagnostic facilities for juveniles than the counties, acting singly, would be able to provide.

(b) The commissioners courts of two or more counties may enter into cooperative agreements to acquire, maintain, and operate detention and diagnostic facilities for juveniles. The counties may maintain, improve, and operate the property so acquired and all improvements thereon, and may sell or lease all or any part of the property and improvements in accordance with the terms of the cooperative agreement. The counties may accept any donation or gift made for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, or operating the juvenile facilities.

(c) In accordance with the terms of the cooperative agreement, each county which is a party to the agreement may issue the bonds of the county as provided by Chapter 1301, Government Code, for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, and operating the facilities for juveniles.

(d) The commissioners courts of two or more counties may enter into cooperative agreements to provide probation services for juveniles. The cooperative agreement shall set forth in detail how the probation services are to be provided and financed.
Tex. Estates Code § 1051.103 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 1051 / Section 1051.103
§ 1051.103. SERVICE OF CITATION FOR APPLICATION FOR GUARDIANSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) The sheriff or other officer shall personally serve citation to appear and answer an application for guardianship on:

(1) a proposed ward who is 12 years of age or older;

(2) the proposed ward's parents, if the whereabouts of the parents are known or can be reasonably ascertained;

(3) any court-appointed conservator or person having control of the care and welfare of the proposed ward;

(4) the proposed ward's spouse, if the whereabouts of the spouse are known or can be reasonably ascertained; and

(5) the person named in the application to be appointed guardian, if that person is not the applicant.

(b) A citation served as provided by Subsection (a) must contain the statement regarding the right under Section 1051.252 that is required in the citation issued under Section 1051.102.

(c) A citation served as provided by Subsection (a) to a relative of the proposed ward described by Subsection (a)(2) or (4) must contain a statement notifying the relative that, if a guardianship is created for the proposed ward, the relative must elect in writing in order to receive notice about the ward under Section 1151.056.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7906.006 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7906 / Section 7906.006
§ 7906.006. INITIAL DISTRICT TERRITORY.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is initially composed of the territory described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.

(b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter form a closure. A mistake made in the field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process does not affect the district's:

(1) organization, existence, or validity;

(2) right to issue any type of bond for the purposes for which the district is created or to pay the principal of and interest on a bond;

(3) right to impose a tax; or

(4) legality or operation.
Tex. Penal Code § 76.02 — TX Code / Code pe / Chapter 76 / Section 76.02
§ 76.02. TERRORISM.
Status: in_force

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

(1) commits or conspires to commit an offense under:

(A) Chapter 19;

(B) Section 20.02;

(C) Section 20.03;

(D) Section 20A.02;

(E) Section 22.02;

(F) Section 22.021;

(G) Section 22.05, if punishable as a felony;

(H) Section 22.07, if punishable as a felony;

(I) Section 22.09;

(J) Section 28.02;

(K) Section 28.07, if punishable as a felony;

(L) Section 29.03;

(M) Section 38.152, if punishable as a felony; or

(N) Section 46.08; and

(2) commits or conspires to commit that offense with the intent to:

(A) intimidate or coerce the public or a substantial group of the public; or

(B) influence, by intimidation or coercion, the policy, conduct, or activities of this state, a political subdivision of this state, or the United States.

(b) An offense under this section is one category higher than the most serious offense listed in Subsection (a) that was committed or conspired to be committed, except that:

(1) if the most serious offense is a Class A misdemeanor, the offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor with a minimum term of confinement of 180 days; and

(2) if the most serious offense is a felony of the first degree, the offense under this section is a felony of the first degree with a minimum term of confinement of 15 years.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 51.301 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 51 / Section 51.301
§ 51.301. INTEREST ON PAST-DUE PAYMENTS.
Status: in_force

Payments under this subchapter that are past due shall bear interest at a rate equal to the rate imposed by the comptroller under Section 111.060, Tax Code, for delinquent payments due the state, except that if the commissioner enters into an agreement with the grantee of the easement or lease specifying a lower rate, the payments bear interest at that lower rate.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 39.10 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 39 / Section 39.10
§ 39.10. RETURN.
Status: in_force

In all cases the return of depositions may be made as provided in civil actions.
Tex. Occupations Code § 801.163 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 801 / Section 801.163
§ 801.163. ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may appoint advisory committees to perform advisory functions as assigned by the board.

(b) An advisory committee shall provide independent expertise on board functions and policies, but may not be involved in setting board policy.

(c) The board shall adopt rules regarding the purpose, structure, and use of an advisory committee, including rules on:

(1) the purpose, role, responsibility, and goal of an advisory committee;

(2) the size and quorum requirements for an advisory committee;

(3) the composition and representation of an advisory committee;

(4) the qualifications of advisory committee members, including any experience requirements or requirements that members represent specific geographic regions of the state;

(5) the appointment procedures for an advisory committee;

(6) the terms of service for advisory committee members;

(7) the training requirements for advisory committee members, if necessary;

(8) the method the board will use to receive public input on issues addressed by an advisory committee; and

(9) the development of board policies and procedures to ensure that an advisory committee meets the requirements for open meetings under Chapter 551, Government Code, including notice requirements.

(d) Notwithstanding any other law, Chapter 2110, Government Code, does not apply to an advisory committee appointed under this section.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 172.211 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 172 / Section 172.211
§ 172.211. ENFORCEABILITY.
Status: in_force

A conciliation agreement has the same force and effect as a final arbitration award if the agreement:

(1) settles the dispute;

(2) is in writing; and

(3) is signed by each conciliator and each party or a representative of each party.