Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 140A.052 · Subchapter B. PROCEDURES AND EVIDENCE
CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMAND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If the attorney general has reason to believe that a person may be in possession, custody, or control of any documentary material or other evidence or may have any information relevant to a civil racketeering investigation, the attorney general may, before beginning a civil proceeding, issue in writing and serve on the person a civil investigative demand requiring the person to:
(1) produce any of the documentary material for inspection and copying;
(2) answer in writing any written interrogatories;
(3) give oral testimony; or
(4) provide any combination of civil investigative demands under Subdivisions (1)-(3).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 685 (H.B. 29), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.140A.htm
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