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Tex. Family Code § 54.0491 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 54 / Section 54.0491
§ 54.0491. GANG-RELATED CONDUCT.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section:

(1) "Criminal street gang" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.01, Penal Code.

(2) "Gang-related conduct" means conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of Class B misdemeanor or higher and in which a child engages with the intent to:

(A) further the criminal activities of a criminal street gang of which the child is a member;

(B) gain membership in a criminal street gang; or

(C) avoid detection as a member of a criminal street gang.

(b) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 regarding a child who has been adjudicated to have engaged in delinquent conduct that is also gang-related conduct, shall order the child to participate in a criminal street gang intervention program that is appropriate for the child based on the child's level of involvement in the criminal activities of a criminal street gang. The intervention program:

(1) must include at least 12 hours of instruction; and

(2) may include voluntary tattoo removal.

(c) If a child required to attend a criminal street gang intervention program is committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department as a result of the gang-related conduct, the child must complete the intervention program before being discharged from the custody of or released under supervision by the department.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 11.0162 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 11 / Section 11.0162
§ 11.0162. ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO COMMISSION.
Status: in_force

(a) The presiding officer may appoint committees to advise the commission on issues under its jurisdiction.

(b) The presiding officer may adopt rules that set the membership, terms of service, qualifications, operating procedures, and other standards to ensure the effectiveness of an advisory committee appointed under this section.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8440.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8440 / Section 8440.101
§ 8440.101. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) The district has the rights, powers, privileges, functions, and duties:

(1) provided by general law applicable to a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including Chapters 49, 50, and 54, Water Code;

(2) relating to a road district or road utility district created under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution; and

(3) relating to the provision of potable and nonpotable water to the residents and businesses of Travis and Hays Counties, including the construction, acquisition, operation, and maintenance of a supply and distribution facility or system.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the district may not construct, acquire, operate, or maintain a toll road.
Tex. Government Code § 442.032 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 442 / Section 442.032
§ 442.032. NAMING OF CERTAIN AREAS ON HISTORIC SITES.
Status: in_force

The commission may name an area of a historic site, including a room or exhibition hall, in honor of a donor or other benefactor as the commission considers appropriate, provided the area does not have historical value. The commission shall adopt rules to implement this section.
Tex. Family Code § 261.106 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 261 / Section 261.106
§ 261.106. IMMUNITIES.
Status: in_force

(a) A person acting in good faith who reports or assists in the investigation of a report of alleged child abuse or neglect or who testifies or otherwise participates in a judicial proceeding arising from a report, petition, or investigation of alleged child abuse or neglect is immune from civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed.

(b) Immunity from civil and criminal liability extends to an authorized volunteer of the department or a law enforcement officer who participates at the request of the department in an investigation of alleged or suspected abuse or neglect or in an action arising from an investigation if the person was acting in good faith and in the scope of the person's responsibilities.

(c) A person who reports the person's own abuse or neglect of a child or who acts in bad faith or with malicious purpose in reporting alleged child abuse or neglect is not immune from civil or criminal liability.
Tex. Education Code § 39.0234 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 39 / Section 39.0234
§ 39.0234. ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Each assessment instrument required under Section 39.023(a), (c), or (l) must be administered electronically, unless otherwise provided by commissioner rule.

(b) The agency may recommend, but may not require, that a school district make external keyboards available for student use with tablet devices for the electronic administration of an assessment instrument, including any portion of an assessment instrument that contains constructed response or essay items.
Tex. Family Code § 264.107 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 264 / Section 264.107
§ 264.107. PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN.
Status: repealed

(a) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 944 , Sec. 86(25), eff. September 1, 2015.

(b) The department shall use an application or assessment developed by the department in coordination with interested parties for the placement of children in contract residential care.

(c) In selecting a placement for a child, the department shall consider whether the placement is in the child's best interest. In determining whether a placement is in a child's best interest, the department shall consider whether the placement:

(1) is the least restrictive setting for the child;

(2) is the closest in geographic proximity to the child's home;

(3) is the most able to meet the identified needs of the child; and

(4) satisfies any expressed interests of the child relating to placement, when developmentally appropriate.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 944 , Sec. 86(25), eff. September 1, 2015.

(e) In making placement decisions, the department shall:

(1) except when making an emergency placement that does not allow time for the required consultations, consult with the child's caseworker, attorney ad litem, and guardian ad litem and with any court-appointed volunteer advocate for the child; and

(2) use clinical protocols to match a child to the most appropriate placement resource.

(f) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 1.203(11), eff. April 2, 2015.

(g) If the department or single source continuum contractor is unable to find an appropriate placement for a child, an employee of the department or contractor who has on file with the department or contractor, as applicable, a background and criminal history check may provide temporary emergency supervision for the child. The employee may not provide temporary emergency supervision under this subsection in the employee's residence. The department or contractor shall provide notice to the court for a child placed in temporary emergency supervision under this subsection not later than the next business day after the date the child is placed in temporary emergency supervision.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 10.203 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 10 / Section 10.203
§ 10.203. ABANDONMENT IF NO FILING REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

(a) If no filing is required by this chapter for the abandonment of a merger, interest exchange, or conversion, the merger, interest exchange, or conversion is abandoned:

(1) as provided by the procedures in the plan of merger, exchange, or conversion; or

(2) if no abandonment procedures are provided by the plan, in the manner determined by the governing authority of the abandoning entity.

(b) A filing of a certificate of abandonment under Section 4.057 is not required for the abandonment of a merger, interest exchange, or conversion if no filing is required under Subchapter D to make the merger, interest exchange, or conversion effective.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3944.155 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3944 / Section 3944.155
§ 3944.155. ASSESSMENTS; LIENS FOR ASSESSMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board by resolution may impose and collect an assessment for any purpose authorized by this chapter in all or any part of the district without regard to whether that area is already subject to or overlaps with an area of the district that is subject to a prior assessment imposed by the board.

(b) An assessment, a reassessment, or an assessment resulting from an addition to or correction of the assessment roll by the district, penalties and interest on an assessment or reassessment, an expense of collection, and reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the district are:

(1) a first and prior lien against the property assessed;

(2) superior to any other lien or claim other than a lien or claim for county, school district, or municipal ad valorem taxes; and

(3) the personal liability of and a charge against the owners of the property even if the owners are not named in the assessment proceedings.

(c) The lien is effective from the date of the board's resolution imposing the assessment until the date the assessment is paid. The board may enforce the lien in the same manner that the board may enforce an ad valorem tax lien against real property.

(d) The board may make a correction to or deletion from the assessment roll that does not increase the amount of assessment of any parcel of land without providing notice and holding a hearing in the manner required for additional assessments.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 5.45 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 5 / Section 5.45
§ 5.45. PROOF OF DOCUMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) In a suit by the state or the commission or in which either is a party, a transcript from the papers, books, records, or proceedings of the commission purporting to contain a true statement of accounts between the commission or the state and any person, or a copy of a rule, order, audit, bond, contract, or other instrument relating to a transaction between the commission and a person, when certified by the administrator or chairman of the commission to be a true copy of the original on file with the commission and authenticated under the seal of the commission, is admissible as prima facie evidence of the existence and validity of the original document and entitled to the same credibility as the original document. If a suit is brought on a bond or other written instrument, and the person alleged to have executed the instrument denies by a sworn pleading to have executed the instrument, the court shall require the production and proof of the instrument.

(b) A member of the commission or the administrator may execute a certificate under the seal of the commission setting forth the terms of an order, rule, bond, or other instrument referred to in this section. In the case of an order or rule, the certificate may state that the order or rule was adopted, promulgated, and published and filed with the commission and was in force at any date or during any period of time. In the case of a bond or other instrument, the certificate may state that it was executed and filed with the commission and was in force at any date or during any period of time. The certificate is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it and is admissible as evidence in any action, civil or criminal, involving the facts contained in the certificate without further proof of those facts.
Tex. Government Code § 22.210 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 22 / Section 22.210
§ 22.210. NINTH COURT OF APPEALS.
Status: in_force

(a) The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court of Appeals District shall be held in the City of Beaumont.

(b) The City of Beaumont shall furnish and equip suitable rooms for the court and the justices without expense to the state.

(c) The court may transact its business in the City of Beaumont or the county seat of any county in the district as the court determines is necessary or convenient.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3917.003 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3917 / Section 3917.003
§ 3917.003. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The Westwood Management District is a special district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Government Code § 2063.508 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2063 / Section 2063.508
§ 2063.508. STATUS OF VOLUNTEER; LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) A volunteer is not an agent, employee, or independent contractor of this state for any purpose and has no authority to obligate this state to a third party.

(b) This state is not liable to a volunteer for personal injury or property damage sustained by the volunteer that arises from participation in the incident response team.
Tex. Occupations Code § 605.255 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 605 / Section 605.255
§ 605.255. ASSISTANT LICENSE.
Status: repealed

(a) An applicant for a license as an orthotist assistant or prosthetist assistant must:

(1) submit an application in the manner and on a form prescribed by the executive director;

(2) pay the nonrefundable application fee established by the commission by rule; and

(3) present evidence satisfactory to the department that the applicant has completed an education program, including courses in the anatomical, biological, and physical sciences, and a clinical residency as prescribed and adopted by the commission by rule.

(b) An assistant licensed under this section may provide only ancillary patient care services, as defined by the commission by rule, in the discipline in which the assistant's supervisor is licensed under this chapter.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 , Sec. 1.222(170), eff. September 1, 2015.
Tex. Education Code § 51.206 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 51 / Section 51.206
§ 51.206. PARKING AND TRAFFIC TICKETS; SUMMONS; ARREST WARRANTS.
Status: in_force

In connection with traffic and parking violations, only the officers authorized to enforce the provisions of this subchapter have the authority to issue and use traffic tickets and summons of the type used by the Texas Highway Patrol, with any changes that are necessitated by reason of this subchapter. On the issuance of any parking or traffic ticket or summons, the same procedures shall be followed as prevail in connection with the use of parking and traffic violation tickets by the cities of this state and the Texas Highway Patrol. Nothing in this subchapter restricts the application and use of regular arrest warrants.
Tex. Government Code § 667.002 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 667 / Section 667.002
§ 667.002. SEPARATE RECORDS REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

Separate vacation and sick leave records must be maintained for each employment.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8106.151 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8106 / Section 8106.151
§ 8106.151. TAX METHOD.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall use the ad valorem plan of taxation.

(b) The board is not required to hold a hearing on the adoption of a plan of taxation.
Tex. Government Code § 2306.559 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2306 / Section 2306.559
§ 2306.559. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The corporation shall file an annual report of the financial activity of the corporation with the department. The corporation's board of directors shall submit the report to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and comptroller.

(b) The corporation shall file the report by the date established in the General Appropriations Act.

(c) The corporation shall prepare the report in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

(d) The report must include:

(1) a statement of support, revenue, and expenses and change in fund balances;

(2) a statement of functional expenses;

(3) balance sheets for all funds;

(4) the number, amount, and purpose of private gifts, grants, donations, or other funds applied for and received;

(5) the number, amount, and purpose of loans provided to affordable housing developers, regardless of whether the corporation provides those loans directly to the developers or administers the loans from another source;

(6) the amount and source of funds deposited into any fund created by the corporation for the purpose of providing grants and the number, amount, and purpose of any grants provided; and

(7) the total amount of annual revenue generated by the corporation in excess of its expenditures.

(e) The corporation shall file quarterly performance reports with the department.

(f) Promptly on receipt, the corporation shall file with the Bond Review Board a report for the preceding fiscal year. The report must contain the status of all outstanding debts and obligations of the corporation, the status of collateral pledged as security for those debts and obligations, and a maturity and payment schedule for those debts and obligations.
Tex. Transportation Code § 546.004 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 546 / Section 546.004
§ 546.004. EXCEPTIONS TO SIGNAL REQUIREMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) A volunteer fire fighter who operates a private vehicle as an authorized emergency vehicle may engage in conduct permitted by Section 546.001 only when the fire fighter is using visual signals meeting the pertinent requirements of Sections 547.305 and 547.702.

(b) An authorized emergency vehicle that is operated as a police vehicle is not required to be equipped with or display a red light visible from the front of the vehicle.

(c) A police officer may operate an authorized emergency vehicle for a law enforcement purpose without using the audible or visual signals required by Section 546.003 if the officer is:

(1) responding to an emergency call or pursuing a suspected violator of the law with probable cause to believe that:

(A) knowledge of the presence of the officer will cause the suspect to:

(i) destroy or lose evidence of a suspected felony;

(ii) end a suspected continuing felony before the officer has obtained sufficient evidence to establish grounds for arrest; or

(iii) evade apprehension or identification of the suspect or the suspect's vehicle; or

(B) because of traffic conditions on a multilaned roadway, vehicles moving in response to the audible or visual signals may:

(i) increase the potential for a collision; or

(ii) unreasonably extend the duration of the pursuit; or

(2) complying with a written regulation relating to the use of audible or visible signals adopted by the local government that employs the officer or by the department.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1801.001 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1801 / Section 1801.001
§ 1801.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Commission merchant" means a person engaged in the business of selling any goods on consignment and for a commission.

(2) "Goods" includes produce, wares, merchandise, sugar, and cotton.
Tex. Local Government Code § 158.014 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 158 / Section 158.014
§ 158.014. DISSOLUTION OF SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

(a) If, after a civil service system under this subchapter has been in effect for at least one year, 10 percent of the qualified voters of the county petition the commissioners court to dissolve the system, the commissioners court shall call an election to determine whether the system will be dissolved.

(b) An election under this section must be held in the manner provided for an election to create a county civil service system.

(c) The ballot for the election shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "Dissolution of the county civil service system."

(d) If the proposition is approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting at the election, the commissioners court shall declare the result and by order dissolve the civil service system. A copy of the order dissolving the system shall be placed in the minutes of the court's proceedings.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 2A.105 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 2A / Section 2A.105
§ 2A.105. GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A district attorney may not represent the state in a criminal case in which the attorney has been, before the attorney's election, employed adversely to the state.

(b) A district or county attorney may not:

(1) be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in any court; or

(2) after the attorney ceases to be a district or county attorney, be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in which the attorney has been of counsel for the state.

(c) A judge of a court in which a district or county attorney represents the state shall declare the attorney disqualified for purposes of Article 2A.104 on a showing that the attorney is the subject of a criminal investigation by a law enforcement agency if that investigation is based on credible evidence of criminal misconduct for an offense that is within the attorney's authority to prosecute. A disqualification under this subsection applies only to the attorney's access to the criminal investigation pending against the attorney and to any prosecution of a criminal charge resulting from that investigation.
Tex. Government Code § 522.0153 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 522 / Section 522.0153
§ 522.0153. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The state entities to which this subchapter applies shall enter into a joint memorandum of understanding to promote a system of local-level interagency staffing groups for the identification and coordination of services for individuals needing multiagency services that:

(1) are to be provided in the least restrictive setting appropriate; and

(2) use residential, institutional, or congregate care settings only as a last resort.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 91.065 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 91 / Section 91.065
§ 91.065. GRADE NO.
Status: in_force

2. Grade No. 2 onions are:

(1) sound and of one variety;

(2) free from doubles, splits, bottle necks, and seed stems;

(3) practically free from damage caused by moisture, sunburn, cuts, disease, insects, or mechanical devices; and

(4) at least two inches in diameter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3915.110 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3915 / Section 3915.110
§ 3915.110. ANNEXATION OF LAND.
Status: in_force

The district may annex land as provided by Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 13.031 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 13 / Section 13.031
§ 13.031. SALE OF COMMODITIES BY PROPER MEASURE.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a liquid commodity shall be sold by liquid measure. A commodity, including a good, ware, or merchandise item, that is not liquid shall be sold by length, weight, or numerical count if the commodity has been or is capable of being sold by one of those measures.

(b) A liquid commodity may be sold by other than liquid measure if sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold.

(c) A liquid commodity may be sold by weight if there is a general consumer usage to express the quantity of the commodity by weight and the expression gives accurate information as to the weight of the commodity.

(d) This section does not prevent the sale of:

(1) fruits, vegetables, or other dry commodities in the standard barrel or by other method provided for by state or federal law;

(2) berries and small fruits in boxes as provided for by other state law; or

(3) vegetables or fruits by the head or bunch if the vegetable or fruit is usually sold in that manner.

(e) This section does not apply to a commodity in an original package, which includes any wholesale or retail package, carton, case, can, barrel, bottle, box, phial, or other receptacle, or the coverings or wrappings of a commodity, that is put up by the manufacturer, that may be labeled, branded, stenciled, or otherwise marked, and that makes one complete package.

(f) A person violates this chapter if, in violation of this section, the person sells a liquid commodity by other than liquid measure or a commodity that is not liquid by a measure other than length, weight, or numerical count.