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Tex. Agriculture Code § 76.101 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 76 / Section 76.101
§ 76.101. COORDINATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The department is the lead agency in the regulation of pesticide use and application and is responsible for coordinating activities of state agencies, except as provided by Section 76.007(b) of this code and by Chapter 26 of the Water Code. The department shall submit a state plan for the licensing of pesticide applicators to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

(b) The department shall coordinate, plan, and approve training programs and shall use the public and private resources of this state, including state universities, colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The department and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service shall adopt a memorandum of understanding to jointly coordinate, plan, and approve the training programs for private applicators.

(c) The department shall make plans under this section on the basis of convenience to applicants, thoroughness of preparation and testing, and maximum economy in expenditures for this purpose. The department shall make full use of grants-in-aid and cooperative agreements in administering this subchapter.

(d)(1) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, no city, town, county, or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt any ordinance, rule, or regulation regarding pesticide sale or use.

(2) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the authority of a city, town, or county to:

(A) encourage locally approved and provided educational material concerning a pesticide;

(B) zone for the sale or storage of such products;

(C) adopt fire or building regulations as preventative measures to protect the public and emergency services personnel from an accident or emergency involving such products, including regulations governing the storage of such products or governing fumigation and thermal insecticidal fogging operations;

(D) provide or designate sites for the disposal of such products;

(E) route hazardous materials; or

(F) regulate discharge to sanitary sewer systems.

(3) This subsection shall not prevent a city, town, county, or any political subdivision from complying with any federal or state law or regulation. This subsection shall not prevent a city, town, county, or any political subdivision from attaining or maintaining compliance with federal or state environmental standards including Texas water quality standards. A city, town, county, or other political subdivision may take any action otherwise prohibited by this subsection in order to comply with any federal requirements, to avoid any federal or state penalties or fines, or to attain or maintain federal or state environmental standards including Texas water quality standards.
Tex. Property Code § 21.103 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 21 / Section 21.103
§ 21.103. RESALE OF PROPERTY; PRICE.
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than the 180th day after the date of the postmark on a notice sent under Section 21.102 or a response to a request made under Section 21.1021 that indicates that the property owner, or the owner's heirs, successors, or assigns, is entitled to repurchase the property interest in accordance with Section 21.101, the property owner or the owner's heirs, successors, or assigns must notify the entity of the person's intent to repurchase the property interest under this subchapter.

(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a person entitled to repurchase real property under Section 21.101(a)(4) or (5) may inform the entity that acquired the property of the person's intent to repurchase the property before notice or information is required or provided under Section 21.102 or 21.1021.

(b) As soon as practicable after receipt of a notice of intent to repurchase under this section, the entity shall offer to sell the property interest to the person for the price paid to the owner by the entity at the time the entity acquired the property through eminent domain. The person's right to repurchase the property expires on the 90th day after the date on which the entity makes the offer.
Tex. Occupations Code § 155.008 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 155 / Section 155.008
§ 155.008. CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall submit to the Department of Public Safety a complete set of fingerprints of each license applicant, and the department shall classify and check the fingerprints against those in the department's fingerprint records. The department shall certify to the board its findings regarding the criminal record of the applicant or the applicant's lack of a criminal record.

(b) Each applicant shall submit information to the board detailing any conviction for a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or a deferred adjudication for a felony or Class A or Class B misdemeanor for a violation relating to:

(1) Medicare, Medicaid or insurance fraud;

(2) the Texas Controlled Substances Act or intoxication or alcoholic beverage offenses;

(3) sexual or assaultive offenses; and

(4) tax fraud or evasion.
Tex. Education Code § 54.530 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 54 / Section 54.530
§ 54.530. STUDENT UNION FEES; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.
Status: in_force

(a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may levy and collect from each student a compulsory fee for operating, maintaining, improving, equipping, and/or constructing additions to the existing Texas Union building near Guadalupe Street. Unless the board increases the amount as provided by this subsection, the fee may not exceed $33 for each regular semester and $16.50 for each term of each summer session. The money collected from the fees shall be deposited to an account known as the Texas Union Fee Account. With the concurrence of the student fees advisory committee, the board may increase the amount of the fee to an amount that is not more than 10 percent of the amount imposed in the preceding academic year. The board may increase the amount of the fee to an amount that is more than 10 percent of the amount imposed in the preceding academic year if that increase in the fee is approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a general election called for that purpose. However, the board may not increase the amount of the fee to an amount that is more than $50 for each regular semester and $30 for each term of each summer session. The activities of said Texas Union building financed in whole or in part by the fee shall be limited to those activities in which the entire student body is eligible to participate, and in no event shall any of the activities so financed be held outside of the territorial limits of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

(b) The fees thus collected and placed in the Texas Union Fee Account shall be placed under the control of and subject to the order of the board of directors of the Texas Union building, which board shall annually submit a complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and complete report of all activities conducted during the past year and all expenditures made incident thereto. The board of regents shall make such changes in the budget as it deems necessary before approving the same, and shall then levy the fees in such amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of said Texas Union building, within the limits herein fixed.

(c) The power and authority conferred by this section does not and shall not constitute in any way a limitation or restriction upon the power and authority of the board of regents under Chapter 55 of this code.
Tex. Insurance Code § 2151.057 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2151 / Section 2151.057
§ 2151.057. COMMITTEE MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE AND VIDEOCONFERENCE.
Status: in_force

(a) Chapter 551, Government Code, applies to a meeting of the governing committee.

(b) Notwithstanding Chapter 551, Government Code, or any other law, the governing committee may meet by telephone conference call, videoconference, or other similar telecommunication method for any meeting purpose, including conducting a vote or establishing a quorum, regardless of the subject matter discussed or considered.

(c) A meeting authorized by this section is subject to the notice requirements that apply to other meetings of the governing committee under Chapter 551, Government Code.

(d) The notice of a meeting authorized by this section must:

(1) specify that the location of the meeting is a location at which at least one member of the governing committee is physically present; and

(2) state clear instructions and requirements for electronic attendance by a member of the committee.

(e) Each part of a meeting authorized by this section must be audible to the public at the location specified by Subsection (d).

(f) Two-way audio communication must be available during the entire meeting between all members of the governing committee attending a meeting authorized by this section, and if the two-way audio communication is disrupted so that a quorum of the committee is no longer participating in the meeting, the meeting may not continue until the two-way audio communication is reestablished.
Tex. Local Government Code § 232.104 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 232 / Section 232.104
§ 232.104. SET-BACKS.
Status: in_force

By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners court may establish reasonable building and set-back lines as provided by Chapter 233 without the limitation period provided by Section 233.004(c).
Tex. Education Code § 130.032 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 130 / Section 130.032
§ 130.032. RESTRICTIONS.
Status: in_force

In order for any territorial unit set out in Sections 130.011 and 130.031 of this code to establish the applicable type of junior college, the proposed district must have a taxable property valuation of not less than $2.5 billion in the next preceding year and a total scholastic population of not less than 15,000 in the next preceding school year.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 4013.0107 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 4013 / Section 4013.0107
§ 4013.0107. APPLICABILITY OF MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS LAW.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, Chapter 375, Local Government Code, applies to the district.
Tex. Government Code § 1508.010 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1508 / Section 1508.010
§ 1508.010. CIVIL ENFORCEMENT.
Status: in_force

A taxpayer who resides in the municipality or a holder of an obligation issued under this subchapter and secured by the encumbered revenue from a facility or land described by Section 1508.001 is entitled to enforce this subchapter by appropriate civil action in a district court in the county in which the municipality is located.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 252.039 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 252 / Section 252.039
§ 252.039. POSTING.
Status: in_force

Each facility shall prominently and conspicuously post for display in a public area of the facility that is readily available to residents, employees, and visitors:

(1) the license issued under this chapter;

(2) a sign prescribed by the commission that specifies complaint procedures established under this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter and that specifies how complaints may be registered with the commission;

(3) a notice in a form prescribed by the commission stating that inspection and related reports are available at the facility for public inspection and providing the commission's toll-free telephone number that may be used to obtain information concerning the facility;

(4) a concise summary of the most recent inspection report relating to the facility;

(5) a notice providing instructions for reporting an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the commission; and

(6) a notice that employees, other staff, residents, volunteers, and family members and guardians of residents are protected from discrimination or retaliation as provided by Sections 252.132 and 252.133.
Tex. Transportation Code § 173.355 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 173 / Section 173.355
§ 173.355. NOTICE TO COMPTROLLER.
Status: in_force

(a) The district shall notify the comptroller in writing by United States registered or certified mail of the district's creation and of its intent to impose the sales and use tax under this chapter.

(b) The district shall provide to the comptroller all information required to implement the tax, including:

(1) an adequate map showing the property boundaries of the district;

(2) a certified copy of the resolution of the board adopting the tax; and

(3) certified copies of the resolutions of the governing bodies of the creating municipalities and of the commissioners courts of the counties in which the municipalities are located.

(c) Not later than the 30th day after the date the comptroller receives the notice, map, and other information, the comptroller shall inform the district whether the comptroller is prepared to administer the tax.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8161.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8161 / Section 8161.002
§ 8161.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a conservation and reclamation district in Harris County created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Transportation Code § 545.061 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 545 / Section 545.061
§ 545.061. DRIVING ON MULTIPLE-LANE ROADWAY.
Status: in_force

On a roadway divided into three or more lanes and providing for one-way movement of traffic, an operator entering a lane of traffic from a lane to the right shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle entering the same lane of traffic from a lane to the left.
Tex. Government Code § 2158.008 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2158 / Section 2158.008
§ 2158.008. WHEN VEHICLE CONSIDERED TO BE USING ALTERNATIVE FUELS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter, a vehicle is considered to be using compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol or methanol/gasoline blends of 85 percent or greater, ethanol or ethanol/gasoline blends of 85 percent or greater, biodiesel or biodiesel/diesel blends of 20 percent or greater, or electricity, including electricity to power a plug-in hybrid motor vehicle, if the vehicle uses those fuels:

(1) not less than 80 percent of the time the vehicle is driven; and

(2) either in its original equipment engine or in an engine that has been converted to use those fuels.
Tex. Government Code § 74.053 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 74 / Section 74.053
§ 74.053. OBJECTION TO JUDGE ASSIGNED TO A TRIAL COURT.
Status: in_force

(a) When a judge is assigned to a trial court under this chapter:

(1) the order of assignment must state whether the judge is an active, former, retired, or senior judge; and

(2) the presiding judge shall, if it is reasonable and practicable and if time permits, give notice of the assignment to each attorney representing a party to the case that is to be heard in whole or part by the assigned judge.

(b) If a party to a civil case files a timely objection to the assignment, the judge shall not hear the case. Except as provided by Subsection (d), each party to the case is only entitled to one objection under this section for that case.

(c) An objection under this section must be filed not later than the seventh day after the date the party receives actual notice of the assignment or before the date the first hearing or trial, including pretrial hearings, commences, whichever date occurs earlier. The presiding judge may extend the time to file an objection under this section on written motion by a party who demonstrates good cause.

(d) An assigned judge or justice who was defeated in the last primary or general election for which the judge or justice was a candidate for the judicial office held by the judge or justice may not sit in a case if either party objects to the judge or justice.

(e) An active judge assigned under this chapter is not subject to an objection.

(f) For purposes of this section, notice of an assignment may be given and an objection to an assignment may be filed by electronic mail.

(g) In this section, "party" includes multiple parties aligned in a case as determined by the presiding judge.
Tex. Finance Code § 342.005 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 342 / Section 342.005
§ 342.005. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by Sections 302.001(d) and 342.004(c), a loan is subject to this chapter if the loan:

(1) provides for interest in excess of 10 percent a year;

(2) is extended primarily for personal, family, or household use to a person who is located in this state at the time the loan is made;

(3) is made by a person engaged in the business of making, arranging, or negotiating those types of loans; and

(4) either:

(A) is not secured by a lien on real property; or

(B) is described by Section 342.001(4), 342.301, or 342.456 and is predominantly payable in monthly installments.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1131.111 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1131 / Section 1131.111
§ 1131.111. RIGHT TO INDIVIDUAL POLICY ON TERMINATION OF COVERAGE UNDER GROUP POLICY.
Status: in_force

(a) A group life insurance policy must provide that if the policy terminates or is amended so as to terminate the insurance of a class of insured individuals, each individual insured under the policy on the date of the termination or amendment whose insurance terminates and who has been insured under the policy for at least five years before the date of the termination or amendment is entitled to have the insurer issue to the individual an individual life insurance policy, subject to the conditions and limitations provided by Section 1131.110.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 1131.110(e), a group life insurance policy may provide that the amount of an individual policy issued under this section may not exceed the lesser of:

(1) the amount of the individual's life insurance coverage that ceases because of the termination or amendment of the group policy, less the amount of any life insurance for which the individual is or becomes eligible under any group policy issued or reinstated by the same or another insurer not later than the 31st day after the date of the termination or amendment; or

(2) $2,000.

(c) This section does not apply to:

(1) a policy issued to a creditor to insure the creditor's debtors; or

(2) a policy to which Section 1131.703 applies.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 5.51 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 5 / Section 5.51
§ 5.51. BOOKKEEPING RECORDS.
Status: in_force

A permittee who holds a permit issued under Chapter 28, 30, or 32 may elect to keep all records required under this code on a machine bookkeeping system. A permittee who desires to use such a system must submit a written application for commission approval of the system before implementing the system. The commission may authorize a permittee to centralize the permittee's records.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8020.0002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8020 / Section 8020.0002
§ 8020.0002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district converted from a fresh water supply district by Chapter 814, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
Tex. Insurance Code § 422.005 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 422 / Section 422.005
§ 422.005. EXEMPTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter does not apply to:

(1) variable contracts for which separate accounts are required to be maintained;

(2) a reinsurance agreement and any trust account related to the reinsurance agreement if the reinsurance agreement and related trust account meet the requirements of Chapter 493;

(3) an assessment-as-needed company or insurance coverage written by an assessment-as-needed company;

(4) an insurer while:

(A) the insurer is subject to a conservatorship order issued by the commissioner; or

(B) a court-appointed receiver is in charge of the insurer's affairs;

(5) an insurer's reserve assets that are held, deposited, pledged, or otherwise encumbered to secure, offset, protect, or meet the insurer's policy reserve liabilities established in a reinsurance agreement under which the insurer reinsures the insurance policy liabilities of a ceding insurer if:

(A) the ceding insurer and the reinsurer are authorized to engage in business in this state; and

(B) in accordance with a written agreement between the ceding insurer and the reinsurer, reserve assets substantially equal to the policy reserve liabilities the reinsurer must establish on the reinsured business are:

(i) deposited by or withheld from the reinsurer and held in the custody of the ceding insurer, or deposited and held in a trust account with a state or national bank domiciled in this state, as security for the payment of the reinsurer's obligations under the reinsurance agreement;

(ii) held subject to withdrawal by the ceding insurer; and

(iii) held under the separate or joint control of the ceding insurer; or

(6) any pledge, encumbrance, or lien contemplated by or customarily included in the documentation for:

(A) an investment or transaction authorized by:

(i) Section 424.068, Subchapter D, Chapter 424, or Section 425.121 or 425.151; or

(ii) Section 424.068, Subchapter E, Chapter 424, or Section 425.124, 425.125, 425.126, 425.127, 425.128, 425.129, 425.130, 425.131, or 425.132; and

(B) a custodial or trust agreement for an insurer's securities authorized by Section 423.103 that provides for a limited grant or lien or security interest for payment of fees and expenses due to a service provider or intermediary under the custodial or trust agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding this section, the commissioner may examine any asset, reinsurance agreement, or deposit arrangement described by Subsection (a)(5) at any time, in accordance with the commissioner's authority under this code to examine an insurer.
Tex. Government Code § 487.051 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 487 / Section 487.051
§ 487.051. POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: repealed

(a) The office shall:

(1) assist rural communities in the key areas of economic development, community development, rural health, and rural housing;

(2) serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources on all state and federal programs affecting rural communities;

(3) in consultation with rural community leaders, locally elected officials, state elected and appointed officials, academic and industry experts, and the interagency work group created under this chapter, identify and prioritize policy issues and concerns affecting rural communities in the state;

(4) make recommendations to the legislature to address the concerns affecting rural communities identified under Subdivision (3);

(5) monitor developments that have a substantial effect on rural Texas communities, especially actions of state government;

(6) administer the federal community development block grant nonentitlement program;

(7) administer programs supporting rural health care as provided by this chapter;

(8) perform research to determine the most beneficial and cost-effective ways to improve the welfare of rural communities;

(9) ensure that the office qualifies as the state's office of rural health for the purpose of receiving grants from the Office of Rural Health Policy of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. Section 254r;

(10) manage the state's Medicare rural hospital flexibility program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1395i-4;

(11) seek state and federal money available for economic development in rural areas for programs under this chapter;

(12) in conjunction with other offices and divisions of the department, regularly cross-train office employees with other employees of the department regarding the programs administered and services provided to rural communities; and

(13) work with interested persons to assist volunteer fire departments and emergency services districts in rural areas.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 4, Sec. 62.11(2), eff. September 28, 2011.