Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 140A.061 · Subchapter B. PROCEDURES AND EVIDENCE
DELIBERATE NONCOMPLIANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, with intent to avoid, evade, or prevent compliance with a civil investigative demand issued under this subchapter, knowingly removes from any place, conceals, withholds, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary material or otherwise provides inaccurate information.
(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by:
(1) a fine of not more than $5,000;
(2) confinement in a county jail for not more than one year; or
(3) both a fine and confinement.
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
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.140A.htm
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- sha256 47225c8ada6ac9bdfc4abcdd27b5925d0907aa2a9c89d4fa3c39bd68b86e41a2
- 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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