Tex. Agric. Code § 59.047 · Subchapter D. OFFENSES; PENALTIES
FRAUD.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person defrauds a person of rights or benefits under this chapter or uses this chapter to defraud the state by an act of fraud, duress, deceit, coercion, or misrepresentation.
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 542, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.59.htm
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- sha256 173356f11f5eab09b9855031ce398c30ee165d25ad38d84400aad6bd3826264a
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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