Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17A.06 · Chapter 17A. CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
APPEARANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In all criminal actions instituted against a corporation or association, in which original jurisdiction is in a district or county-level court:
(1) appearance is for the purpose of arraignment;
(2) the corporation or association has 10 full days after the day the arraignment takes place and before the day the trial begins to file written pleadings.
(b) In all criminal actions instituted against a corporation or association, in which original jurisdiction is in a justice court or corporation court:
(1) appearance is for the purpose of entering a plea; and
(2) 10 full days must elapse after the day of appearance before the corporation or association may be tried.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 981, ch. 399, Sec. 2(D), eff. Jan. 1, 1974.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.17A.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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