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Tex. Transportation Code § 504.668 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 504 / Section 504.668
§ 504.668. IN GOD WE TRUST LICENSE PLATES.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall issue specially designed license plates that include the words "In God We Trust."

(b) After deduction of the department's administrative costs, the remainder of the fee for issuance of the license plates shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund and may be appropriated only to the Texas Veterans Commission.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 2.102 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 2 / Section 2.102
§ 2.102. ADDITIONAL POWERS OF NONPROFIT ENTITY OR INSTITUTION.
Status: in_force

To effect its purposes, a domestic nonprofit entity or institution formed for a religious, charitable, educational, or eleemosynary purpose may acquire, own, hold, mortgage, and dispose of and invest its funds in property for the use and benefit of, under the discretion of, and in trust for a convention, conference, or association organized under the laws of this state or another state with which it is affiliated or by which it is controlled.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 464.052 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 464 / Section 464.052
§ 464.052. EXEMPTION FOR FAITH-BASED CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY TREATMENT PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

(a) Subchapter A does not apply to a chemical dependency treatment program that:

(1) is conducted by a religious organization;

(2) is exclusively religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical in nature;

(3) does not treat minors; and

(4) is registered under Section 464.053.

(b) The department may not prohibit the use, by a program exempted under this subchapter, of the term "counseling," "treatment," or "rehabilitation."
Tex. Transportation Code § 393.006 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 393 / Section 393.006
§ 393.006. DEFENSE.
Status: in_force

It is a defense to prosecution or suit under this chapter that the defendant was a candidate for an elective public office and the sign is placed:

(1) by a person other than the defendant; and

(2) in connection with a campaign for an elective public office by the defendant.
Tex. Government Code § 321.023 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 321 / Section 321.023
§ 321.023. SEAL.
Status: in_force

The state auditor shall obtain a seal with "State Auditor, State of Texas" engraved around the margin and a five-pointed star in the center to be used to authenticate official documents issued by the state auditor.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1806.054 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1806 / Section 1806.054
§ 1806.054. OTHER PROHIBITED INDUCEMENTS.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by Section 1806.055, 1806.056, or 1806.057, an insurer or an insurer's officer, director, agent, or other representative may not, for the purpose of writing the insurance of an insured, grant to the insured or contract with the insured for a special favor or advantage in dividends or other profits, or commissions or dividends of commissions or profits to accrue on the policy, or compensation or other valuable consideration not specified in the policy, or an inducement not specified in the policy.
Tex. Insurance Code § 541.101 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 541 / Section 541.101
§ 541.101. EXAMINATION AND INVESTIGATION.
Status: in_force

The department may examine and investigate the affairs of a person engaged in the business of insurance in this state to determine whether the person has or is engaged in an unfair method of competition or unfair or deceptive act or practice prohibited by Section 541.003.
Tex. Labor Code § 355.005 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 355 / Section 355.005
§ 355.005. ISSUANCE OF LICENSES; ELIGIBILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may issue a license to operate its vending facilities on state property to blind citizens of the state who are capable of operating the facilities in a manner that is reasonably satisfactory to all parties concerned.

(b) Before issuing a license to a person, the commission shall determine whether the person has the physical, psychological, and personal traits and abilities required to operate a vending facility in a satisfactory manner.

(c) The commission shall maintain a roster of the names of each person who has been certified as suitable for licensing. If two or more equally qualified persons are listed on the roster and apply for a license to operate an available vending facility, the commission shall issue the license to the person who is most in need of employment.

(d) The granting of a license does not vest the licensee with property or other rights which may constitute the basis of a cause of action, at law or in equity, against the state or its officers or employees.
Tex. Insurance Code § 33.007 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 33 / Section 33.007
§ 33.007. PROHIBITED REPRESENTATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who served as the commissioner, the general counsel to the commissioner, or the public insurance counsel, or as an employee of the State Office of Administrative Hearings who was involved in hearing cases under this code, another insurance law of this state, or Title 5, Labor Code, commits an offense if the person represents another person in a matter before the department or receives compensation for services performed on behalf of another person regarding a matter pending before the department during the one-year period after the date the person ceased to be the commissioner, the general counsel to the commissioner, the public insurance counsel, or an employee of the State Office of Administrative Hearings.

(b) A person who served as a member of the State Board of Insurance or as a staff employee of a member of the State Board of Insurance, or who served as the commissioner, the general counsel to the commissioner, or the public insurance counsel or as an employee of the department or the State Office of Administrative Hearings, commits an offense if, after the person ceased to serve, the person represents another person or receives compensation for services performed on behalf of another person regarding a matter with which the person was directly concerned during the person's service. For purposes of this subsection, a person was directly concerned with a matter if the person had personal involvement with the matter or if the matter was within the scope of the person's official responsibility.

(c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) This section does not apply to a department employee whose position is eliminated as a direct result of a reduction in the department's workforce.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 4.303 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 4 / Section 4.303
§ 4.303. WHEN ITEMS SUBJECT TO NOTICE, STOP-PAYMENT ORDER, LEGAL PROCESS, OR SETOFF; ORDER IN WHICH ITEMS MAY BE CHARGED OR CERTIFIED.
Status: in_force

(a) Any knowledge, notice, or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon, or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop-payment order, or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act thereon expires or the setoff is exercised after the earliest of the following:

(1) the bank accepts or certifies the item;

(2) the bank pays the item in cash;

(3) the bank settles for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearing-house rule, or agreement;

(4) the bank becomes accountable for the amount of the item under Section 4.302 dealing with the payor bank's responsibility for late return of items; or

(5) with respect to checks, a cutoff hour not earlier than one hour after the opening of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check and not later than the close of that next banking day or, if no cutoff hour is fixed, the close of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check.

(b) Subject to Subsection (a), items may be accepted, paid, certified, or charged to the indicated account of a bank's customer in any order and before or after the bank's regular banking hours. A bank is under no obligation to determine the time of day an item is received and without liability may withhold the amount thereof pending a determination of the effect, consequence or priority of any knowledge, notice, stop-payment order, or legal process concerning the same, or interplead such amount and the claimants thereto.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9023.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9023 / Section 9023.153
§ 9023.153. MATURITY.
Status: in_force

District bonds, including refunding bonds, must mature not later than 40 years after the date of their issuance.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3926.114 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3926 / Section 3926.114
§ 3926.114. POWERS SUBJECT TO DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATING AGREEMENT.
Status: in_force

In addition to the other limitations provided by this chapter, the district's authority to exercise its powers is subject to the terms of the development and operating agreement required under Section 3926.156.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 131.132 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 131 / Section 131.132
§ 131.132. FORM OF PERMIT APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

On application to the commission for a surface mining permit, an operator shall submit three copies of a permit application on a form prescribed by the commission, and the commission shall require in the form the information it considers reasonably necessary to process the application and to ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
Tex. Government Code § 54.001 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54 / Section 54.001
§ 54.001. QUALIFICATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to any other qualification required by law, to be eligible for appointment as a master, magistrate, referee, associate judge, or hearing officer under this chapter, a person must:

(1) be a resident of this state and of the county in which they are appointed;

(2) except as provided by Subsection (b), have been licensed to practice law in this state and in good standing with the State Bar of Texas for at least five years;

(3) not have been defeated for reelection to a judicial office in the election immediately preceding the person's appointment;

(4) not have been removed from office by impeachment, the supreme court, the governor on address to the legislature, a tribunal reviewing a recommendation of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, or the legislature's abolition of the judge's court; and

(5) not have resigned from office after having received notice the State Commission on Judicial Conduct had instituted formal proceedings as provided by Section 33.022 and before the final disposition of the proceedings.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2), to be eligible for appointment as a master, magistrate, referee, associate judge, or hearing officer under the following provisions of this chapter, a person must have been licensed to practice law in this state and in good standing with the State Bar of Texas for at least two years:

(1) Section 54.991;

(2) Section 54.1231;

(3) Section 54.1501;

(4) Section 54.1851;

(5) Section 54.2001;

(6) Section 54.2301; or

(7) Section 54.2802.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3967.0505 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3967 / Section 3967.0505
§ 3967.0505. BONDS SECURED BY AD VALOREM TAXES; ELECTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized at an election under Section 3967.0501, the district may issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes.

(b) Section 375.243, Local Government Code, does not apply to the district.

(c) At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, for each year that all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.

(d) All or any part of any facilities or improvements that may be acquired by a district by the issuance of its bonds may be submitted as a single proposition or as several propositions to be voted on at the election.
Tex. Government Code § 441.073 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 441 / Section 441.073
§ 441.073. TEXAS PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND.
Status: in_force

(a) The Texas public library fund is a special fund in the state treasury outside the general revenue fund.

(b) The public library fund consists of money credited to the fund under Section 441.071(d) and proceeds from sales under Section 441.074(d).

(c) Money in the public library fund may be appropriated only to the commission to perform the commission's powers and duties concerning public library development under this chapter and to pay the commission's expenses incurred under this subchapter.

(d) The public library fund is exempt from the application of Sections 403.095 and 404.071. Interest and income from deposit and investment of money in the fund shall be allocated to the fund monthly.
Tex. Local Government Code § 572.059 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 572 / Section 572.059
§ 572.059. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) A public utility agency may award a contract for construction of an improvement that involves the expenditure of more than $20,000 only on the basis of competitive bids.

(b) The agency shall publish notice of intent to receive bids once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the agency is domiciled. The first publication must appear at least 14 days before the date bids are to be received.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 134.094 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 134 / Section 134.094
§ 134.094.
Status: in_force

Sec. 134.094. BACKFILLING, GRADING, AND COMPACTING: SUFFICIENT OVERBURDEN. (a) This section applies to a surface coal mining operation:

(1) in which the volume of overburden is large relative to the thickness of the coal deposit; and

(2) for which the operator demonstrates that because of volumetric expansion the amount of overburden and other spoil and waste materials removed in the course of the mining operation is more than sufficient to restore the approximate original contour.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 134.092(a)(3), the operator shall, after restoring the approximate contour, backfill, grade, and compact, where advisable, the excess overburden and other spoil and waste materials to attain the lowest grade but not more than the angle of repose and to cover the acid-forming and other toxic materials in order to achieve an ecologically sound land use compatible with the surrounding region. The overburden or spoil shall be shaped and graded to prevent slides, erosion, and water pollution and shall be revegetated in accordance with this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3835.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3835 / Section 3835.106
§ 3835.106. MEMBERSHIP IN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.
Status: in_force

The district may join and pay dues to an organization that:

(1) enjoys tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3), (4), or (6), Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and

(2) performs a service or provides an activity consistent with the furtherance of a district purpose.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 167.111 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 167 / Section 167.111
§ 167.111. PRESUMPTION OF OWNERSHIP OR CARE.
Status: in_force

(a) If an inspector determines that a person is the owner, part owner, or caretaker of animals subject to treatment and an order to treat is issued and served, it is presumed that, at the time of a failure to treat, the person was still the owner, part owner, or caretaker of animals subject to treatment located on the premises described in the order. In that case, the state is required to prove only that the person was the owner, part owner, or caretaker of animals subject to treatment located on the premises at the time the order was served.

(b) After the service of an order to treat, if there are no longer any animals subject to treatment located on the premises and if no animals subject to treatment have been illegally removed, the defendant may file a sworn statement of that fact at the beginning of the trial. If the defendant does not file that statement, it is presumed that the defendant's status as owner, part owner, or caretaker remained unchanged since the service of the order.
Tex. Property Code § 41.007 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 41 / Section 41.007
§ 41.007. HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACT.
Status: in_force

(a) A contract for improvements to an existing residence described by Section 41.001(b)(3) must contain:

(1) the contractor's certificate of registration number from the Texas Residential Construction Commission if the contractor is required to register as a builder with the commission;

(2) the address and telephone number at which the owner may file a complaint with the Texas Residential Construction Commission about the conduct of the contractor if the contractor is required to register as a builder with the commission; and

(3) the following warning conspicuously printed, stamped, or typed in a size equal to at least 10-point bold type or computer equivalent:

"IMPORTANT NOTICE: You and your contractor are responsible for meeting the terms and conditions of this contract. If you sign this contract and you fail to meet the terms and conditions of this contract, you may lose your legal ownership rights in your home. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AND DUTIES UNDER THE LAW."

(b) A violation of Subsection (a) of this section is a false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice within the meaning of Section 17.46, Business & Commerce Code, and is actionable in a public or private suit brought under the provisions of the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (Subchapter E, Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code).

(c) A provision of a contract for improvements to an existing residence described by Section 41.001(b)(3) that requires the parties to submit a dispute arising under the contract to binding arbitration must be conspicuously printed or typed in a size equal to at least 10-point bold type or the computer equivalent.

(d) A provision described by Subsection (c) is not enforceable against the owner unless the requirements of Subsection (c) are met.
Tex. Utilities Code § 55.044 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 55 / Section 55.044
§ 55.044. EXEMPTION.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may not require an incumbent local exchange company serving the petitioning or requested exchange to expand the company's toll-free local calling area under this subchapter if:

(1) the incumbent local exchange company has fewer than 10,000 access lines;

(2) the petitioning or requested exchange is served by a telephone cooperative corporation;

(3) extended area service or extended metropolitan service is available between the exchanges;

(4) the petitioning or requested exchange is a metropolitan exchange; or

(5) the commission determines that the company has shown that to serve the area is not geographically or technologically feasible.

(b) To promote the wide dispersion of pay telephones, the commission may:

(1) exempt pay telephones from this subchapter; or

(2) change the rates charged for calls from pay telephones.
Tex. Education Code § 29.0041 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 29 / Section 29.0041
§ 29.0041. INFORMATION AND CONSENT FOR CERTAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS OR TESTS.
Status: repealed

(a) On request of a child's parent, before obtaining the parent's consent under 20 U.S.C. Section 1414 for the administration of any psychological examination or test to the child that is included as part of the evaluation of the child's need for special education, a school district shall provide to the child's parent:

(1) the name and type of the examination or test; and

(2) an explanation of how the examination or test will be used to develop an appropriate individualized education program for the child.

(b) If the district determines that an additional examination or test is required for the evaluation of a child's need for special education after obtaining consent from the child's parent under Subsection (a), the district shall provide the information described by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) to the child's parent regarding the additional examination or test and shall obtain additional consent for the examination or test.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Chs. 1065 (H.B. 2), Sec. 4.63(4), and 1137 (S.B. 568), Sec. 64(4), eff. June 20, 2025.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8267.0102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8267 / Section 8267.0102
§ 8267.0102. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Insurance Code § 402.101 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 402 / Section 402.101
§ 402.101. NONRENEWALS, CANCELLATIONS, AND REVISIONS CONSIDERED MATERIAL.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, a nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision of a ceded reinsurance agreement is material if, on an annual basis, as reported in an insurer's or health maintenance organization's most recent statutory statement filed with the department, the nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision affects:

(1) for property and casualty business, including accident and health business when written as property and casualty business, more than 50 percent of the insurer's or health maintenance organization's ceded written premium; or

(2) for life, annuity, and accident and health business, more than 50 percent of the total reserve credit taken for business ceded by the insurer or health maintenance organization.
Tex. Family Code § 264.0091 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 264 / Section 264.0091
§ 264.0091. USE OF TELECONFERENCING AND VIDEOCONFERENCING TECHNOLOGY.
Status: in_force

Subject to the availability of funds, the department, in cooperation with district and county courts, shall expand the use of teleconferencing and videoconferencing to facilitate participation by medical experts, children, and other individuals in court proceedings, including children for whom the department or a licensed child-placing agency has been appointed managing conservator and who are committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6914.104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6914 / Section 6914.104
§ 6914.104. ADDITION OF TERRITORY TO DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may be composed of noncontiguous territory.

(b) In addition to adding land as provided by Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code, the district may add land as provided by this section. Land added to the district need not be contiguous to the district.

(c) The owner of land may request by petition that the board include the land in the district.

(d) A petition under Subsection (c) must be filed with the board and describe the land to be added to the district. The description may be by metes and bounds or by lot and block number. The petition must be signed and executed in the manner provided by law for the conveyance of real estate.

(e) The board shall hear and consider a petition filed under this section. The board may grant the petition and add the land to the district if the board considers the addition to be to the advantage of the district.

(f) A petition granted under this section shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Bee County Clerk.