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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 482.002 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 482 / Section 482.002
§ 482.002. UNLAWFUL DELIVERY OR MANUFACTURE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER; CRIMINAL PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally manufactures with the intent to deliver or delivers a simulated controlled substance and the person:

(1) expressly represents the substance to be a controlled substance;

(2) represents the substance to be a controlled substance in a manner that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance; or

(3) states to the person receiving or intended to receive the simulated controlled substance that the person may successfully represent the substance to be a controlled substance to a third party.

(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the person manufacturing with the intent to deliver or delivering the simulated controlled substance was:

(1) acting in the discharge of the person's official duties as a peace officer;

(2) manufacturing the substance for or delivering the substance to a licensed medical practitioner for use as a placebo in the course of the practitioner's research or practice; or

(3) a licensed medical practitioner, pharmacist, or other person authorized to dispense or administer a controlled substance, and the person was acting in the legitimate performance of the person's professional duties.

(c) It is not a defense to prosecution under this section that the person manufacturing with the intent to deliver or delivering the simulated controlled substance believed the substance to be a controlled substance.

(d) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Tex. Transportation Code § 284.069 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 284 / Section 284.069
§ 284.069. TOLLS AND CHARGES.
Status: in_force

If bonds under this chapter are payable in whole or in part from project revenue, the county shall impose tolls and charges that are, together with other money or revenues available for the project, including ad valorem tax, sufficient to:

(1) pay the maintenance and operating expenses of the project;

(2) pay the principal of, premium of, if any, and interest on the bonds when due;

(3) establish a reserve for payment of bond principal, premium, and interest; and

(4) establish an adequate fund for project depreciation and replacement.
Tex. Water Code § 63.104 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 63 / Section 63.104
§ 63.104. COMPENSATION OF ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR AND DEPUTY.
Status: in_force

The commission shall fix the compensation to be paid to the tax assessor and collector or any deputy.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 14A.003 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 14A / Section 14A.003
§ 14A.003. APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE.
Status: in_force

(a) In order to obtain a certificate to transact business, a person must apply in writing to the county clerk of the county in which the warehouse is to be operated. The application must state the name and location of the warehouse and:

(1) the name of each person with an interest as owner or principal in the warehouse; or

(2) if a corporation owns or manages the warehouse, the name of the president, secretary, and treasurer of the corporation.

(b) The clerk shall issue the certificate and retain for county records a copy of the application.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3893.205 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3893 / Section 3893.205
§ 3893.205. MAINTENANCE TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized at an election held in accordance with Section 3893.104, the district may impose an annual ad valorem tax on taxable property in the district to:

(1) administer the district;

(2) maintain and operate the district;

(3) construct or acquire improvements; or

(4) provide a service.

(b) The board shall determine the tax rate.

(c) An owner of real property in the district, except property exempt under the Texas or United States Constitution or under the Tax Code, is liable for the payment of ad valorem taxes imposed by the district on the property.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 251.102 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 251 / Section 251.102
§ 251.102. OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The directors of a cooperative association shall annually elect, unless otherwise provided by the bylaws, the following officers for the cooperative association:

(1) a president;

(2) one or more vice presidents; and

(3) a secretary and treasurer or a secretary-treasurer.

(b) Any two or more offices, other than the offices of president and secretary, may be held by the same person.

(c) The officers of a cooperative association may be designated by other titles as provided by the certificate of formation or the bylaws of the cooperative association.

(d) A committee duly designated by the board of directors may perform the functions of any office, and the functions of any two or more officers may be performed by a single committee, including the functions of both president and secretary.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1152.201 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1152 / Section 1152.201
§ 1152.201. TERM OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by the commission, a certificate of registration expires on the first anniversary of the date of issuance.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8836.005 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8836 / Section 8836.005
§ 8836.005. DISTRICT NAME CHANGE.
Status: in_force

The board by resolution may change the district's name.
Tex. Government Code § 2256.007 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2256 / Section 2256.007
§ 2256.007. INVESTMENT TRAINING; STATE AGENCY BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

(a) Each member of the governing board of a state agency and its investment officer shall attend at least one training session relating to the person's responsibilities under this chapter within six months after taking office or assuming duties.

(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall provide the training under this section.

(c) Training under this section must include education in investment controls, security risks, strategy risks, market risks, diversification of investment portfolio, and compliance with this chapter.

(d) An investment officer shall attend a training session not less than once each state fiscal biennium and may receive training from any independent source approved by the governing body of the state agency. The investment officer shall prepare a report on this subchapter and deliver the report to the governing body of the state agency not later than the 180th day after the last day of each regular session of the legislature.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 56A.503 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 56A / Section 56A.503
§ 56A.503. NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OR ESCAPE.
Status: in_force

(a) The department or sheriff, whichever has custody of a defendant in the case of a felony, or the sheriff in the case of a misdemeanor, shall notify a victim of the offense or a witness who testified against the defendant at the trial for the offense, other than a witness who testified in the course and scope of the witness's official or professional duties, when a defendant convicted of an offense described by Article 56A.502:

(1) completes the defendant's sentence and is released; or

(2) escapes from a correctional facility.

(b) If the department is required by Subsection (a) to give notice to a victim or witness, the department shall also give notice to local law enforcement officials in the county in which the victim or witness resides.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1101.4521 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1101 / Section 1101.4521
§ 1101.4521. CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION FOR RENEWAL.
Status: in_force

An applicant for the renewal of an unexpired license must comply with the criminal history record check requirements of Section 1101.3521.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 142.009 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 142 / Section 142.009
§ 142.009. IMPOUNDMENT OF ESTRAY.
Status: in_force

(a) The sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall impound an estray and hold it for disposition as provided by this chapter if:

(1) the owner of the estray is unknown;

(2) the sheriff or the sheriff's designee is unable to notify the owner;

(3) the estray is dangerous to the public;

(4) the estray is located on public property and after notification is not immediately removed by the owner; or

(5) the estray is located on public or private property and is not redeemed not later than the fifth day after the date of notification, unless the sheriff or the sheriff's designee determines that the owner of the estray is making a good faith effort to comply with Section 142.004(a).

(b) After impounding an estray, the sheriff or sheriff's designee shall prepare a notice of estray stating at least:

(1) the name and address of the person who reported the estray to the sheriff;

(2) the location of the estray when found;

(3) the location of the estray until disposition; and

(4) a description of the animal, including its breed, if known, color, sex, age, size, markings of any kind, including ear markings and brands, and other identifying characteristics.

(c) The sheriff or sheriff's designee shall file each notice of estray in the estray records in the office of the county clerk.

(d) If the owner of the estray is unknown, the sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall make a diligent search for the identity of the owner of the estray, including a search in the county register of recorded brands, if the animal has an identifiable brand. If the search does not reveal the owner, the sheriff shall post a notice of the impoundment of the estray on the public notice board of the courthouse and advertise the impoundment of the estray:

(1) in a newspaper of general circulation in the county at least twice during the 15 days after the date of impoundment; or

(2) on the county's Internet website for at least 15 days after the date of impoundment.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1004.109 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1004 / Section 1004.109
§ 1004.109. EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire a fee simple or other interest in property located in district territory if the interest is necessary for the district to exercise the rights or authority conferred by this chapter.

(b) The district must exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code, except that the district is not required to deposit in the trial court money or a bond as provided by Section 21.021(a), Property Code.

(c) In a condemnation proceeding brought by the district, the district is not required to:

(1) pay in advance or provide bond or other security for costs in the trial court;

(2) provide bond for the issuance of a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction; or

(3) provide a bond for costs or a supersedeas bond on an appeal or writ of error.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8322.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8322 / Section 8322.101
§ 8322.101. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS FOR ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may issue bonds or other obligations payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, impact fees, revenue, contract payments, grants, or other district money, or any combination of those sources, to pay for a road project authorized by Section 8322.053.

(b) The district may not issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes to finance a road project unless the issuance is approved by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose.

(c) At the time of issuance, the total principal amount of bonds or other obligations issued or incurred to finance road projects and payable from ad valorem taxes may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the real property in the district.
Tex. Government Code § 651.007 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 651 / Section 651.007
§ 651.007. EXIT INTERVIEWS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "state agency" means a board, commission, council, committee, department, office, agency, or other governmental entity in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government. The term does not include an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.

(b) Each state agency shall conduct an exit interview with an employee who leaves employment with the agency. The state agency shall conduct the exit interview by having the employee access the questionnaire posted on the state auditor's Internet site and electronically submit the completed questionnaire to the state auditor. The questionnaire must state that the employee has the option of having the employee's questionnaire furnished to the head of the agency or the governor's office.

(c) The state agency shall conduct the exit interview in a manner that allows the employee alone to describe the employee's reason for leaving employment. The state agency may not alter the description stated by the employee. The state agency may not have access to the questionnaire unless it is provided by the employee under Subsection (b).

(d) Subject to Subsection (j), the state auditor shall develop the exit interview questionnaire. In developing the questionnaire under this subsection, the state auditor shall consult with the comptroller and representatives designated by the comptroller from small, medium, and large state agencies.

(e) Not later than the 15th day following the end of the calendar quarter, the state auditor shall submit, subject to Subsection (j), a report to each state agency containing the responses to the exit interview questionnaire submitted by each former employee of the agency during the preceding quarter. The state auditor's report may not contain the name of an employee or any other information identifying the employee.

(f) A state agency may not share the responses to an exit interview questionnaire with another state agency.

(g) The responses to an exit interview questionnaire are confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, including responses to a questionnaire furnished to an entity listed under Subsection (b). The responses may be disclosed only to a law enforcement agency in a criminal investigation or on order of a court.

(h) Subject to Subsection (j), the state auditor may audit each state agency's records to determine whether the agency is complying with the requirements of this section.

(i) Not later than December 15 of each year before a regular session of the legislature, the state auditor shall submit a report summarizing the findings of the exit interviews to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and members of the Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Appropriations.

(j) Work performed under this section by the state auditor is subject to approval by the legislative audit committee for inclusion in the audit plan under Section 321.013(c).
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7960A.0306 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7960A / Section 7960A.0306
§ 7960A.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 no outstanding bonded debt; 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) The board may adopt an order dividing the district before or after the date the board holds an election under Section 7960A.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 or among 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) Any new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by Section 7960A.0103. If the voters of a new district do not confirm the creation of the new district, the assets, obligations, territory, and governance of the new district revert to the original district.

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

(j) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district granted under Section 7960A.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.

(k) 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.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8265.001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8265 / Section 8265.001
§ 8265.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

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

(2) "Director" means a board member.

(3) "District" means the Kimberlin Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 2 of Grayson County.
Tex. Estates Code § 505.051 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 505 / Section 505.051
§ 505.051. APPLICABILITY OF BOND REQUIREMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) A foreign executor is not required to give bond if the will appointing the foreign executor provides that the executor may serve without bond.

(b) The bond provisions of this title applicable to domestic representatives apply to a foreign executor if the will appointing the foreign executor does not exempt the foreign executor from giving bond.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 12.302 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 12 / Section 12.302
§ 12.302. VALUE OF FISH, SHELLFISH, REPTILE, AMPHIBIAN, BIRD, OR ANIMAL.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this subchapter and for determining damages under Section 7.109, Water Code, the commission shall adopt rules to establish guidelines for determining the value of injured or destroyed fish, shellfish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and animals.
Tex. Government Code § 54.2501 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54 / Section 54.2501
§ 54.2501. CREATION.
Status: in_force

The Brazoria County Criminal Law Magistrate Court is a court with the jurisdiction provided by this subchapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1071.067 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1071 / Section 1071.067
§ 1071.067. LIABILITY INSURANCE; INDEMNIFICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may defend or indemnify an officer, director, board appointee, medical staff member, or district employee against or from a claim, expense, or liability arising from duties performed in that capacity.

(b) The board may purchase liability insurance coverage or establish a self-insurance program to fund an indemnity obligation under this section.
Tex. Election Code § 254.093 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 254 / Section 254.093
§ 254.093. SEMIANNUAL REPORTING SCHEDULE FOR OFFICEHOLDER.
Status: in_force

(a) An officeholder shall file two reports for each year as provided by this section.

(b) The first report shall be filed not later than July 15. The report covers the period beginning January 1, the day the officeholder takes office, or the first day after the period covered by the last report required to be filed under this chapter, as applicable, and continuing through June 30.

(c) The second report shall be filed not later than January 15. The report covers the period beginning July 1, the day the officeholder takes office, or the first day after the period covered by the last report required to be filed under this chapter, as applicable, and continuing through December 31.
Tex. Labor Code § 315.007 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 315 / Section 315.007
§ 315.007. PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE FUNDING.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission by rule shall develop and establish a performance-based process for annually awarding funds to entities that deliver adult education and literacy services under this chapter. The process must be designed to reward those entities demonstrating exemplary performance in the delivery of services.

(b) In developing the process for awarding funds under this section, the commission shall prescribe:

(1) criteria, including fiscal and programmatic performance criteria, to be used to evaluate the performance by the entities described by Subsection (a); and

(2) procedures for taking corrective action, including contract termination or the discontinuation of an award of funds, against an entity for the entity's failure to satisfy the performance criteria prescribed under Subdivision (1).

(c) The criteria prescribed under Subsection (b)(1) for the award of funds to entities described by Subsection (a) based on performance during a program year must include the achievement by an entity of the following enrollment target and performance benchmarks:

(1) the enrollment in a high school equivalency program or a postsecondary ability to benefit program of at least 25 percent of all students receiving adult education and literacy services from the entity during that program year; and

(2) the achievement by the end of that program year of a high school equivalency certificate or a postsecondary certificate by at least 70 percent of those students who exit the entity's adult education program during that program year and who are enrolled in a high school equivalency program or a postsecondary ability to benefit program.

(d) The process developed under this section must require the members of the commission to approve the award of any funds under this chapter.

(e) In this section, "postsecondary ability to benefit program" means a postsecondary certificate program in which a person who does not have a high school diploma or equivalency certificate and who both qualifies for federal student financial aid and demonstrates on an assessment instrument that the person can pass college-level courses with some support may enroll.
Tex. Education Code § 49.259 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 49 / Section 49.259
§ 49.259. TAXES OF COMPONENT DISTRICTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing board of a component school district of a consolidated taxing district that has consolidated for maintenance and operation purposes only may issue bonds and levy, pledge, and collect ad valorem taxes within that component district sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on those bonds as provided by Chapter 45.

(b) A component district levying an ad valorem tax under this section or Section 49.260(b)(1) is entitled to the guaranteed yield provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 48, for that portion of its tax rate that, when added to the maintenance tax levied by the consolidated taxing unit, does not exceed the limitation provided by Section 48.203.
Tex. Labor Code § 101.118 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 101 / Section 101.118
§ 101.118. EXPULSION OF MEMBER.
Status: in_force

(a) A labor union may not expel a union member without:

(1) good cause; and

(2) a fair and public hearing by and within the organization, after due notice and an opportunity to be heard on the specific charges alleged.

(b) On the petition of a member expelled from a labor organization, a court of competent jurisdiction shall order the reinstatement of the member if the member was expelled without good cause.