Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 72.002 · Subchapter A. DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS
DESTRUCTION OF CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A business record required to be retained by a law of this state may be destroyed at any time after the third anniversary of the date the business record was created.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if a law or rule applicable to the business record prescribes a different retention period or procedure for disposal.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.72.htm
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- 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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