Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.25 · Chapter 43. EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT
BODY OF CONVICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The body of a convict who has been legally executed shall be embalmed immediately and so directed by the Director of the correctional institutions division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. If the body is not demanded or requested by a relative or bona fide friend within forty-eight hours after execution then it shall be delivered to the Texas Funeral Service Commission, if requested by the commission. If the body is requested by a relative, a bona fide friend, or the Texas Funeral Service Commission, such recipient shall pay a fee not to exceed twenty-five dollars to the mortician for the mortician's services in embalming the body for which the mortician shall issue to the recipient a written receipt. When such receipt is delivered to the Director of the correctional institutions division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the body of the deceased shall be delivered to the party named in the receipt or the party's authorized agent. If the body is not delivered to a relative, a bona fide friend, or the Texas Funeral Service Commission, the Director of the correctional institutions division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall cause the body to be decently buried, and the fee for embalming shall be paid by the county in which the indictment which resulted in conviction was found.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 961 (S.B. 2040), Sec. 2.01, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.43.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
Cited by 9 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.25. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 2B.0202RECORDING OF CUSTODIAL INTERROGATION REQUIRED; EXCEPTIONS.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.03PERSONAL BOND.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.153DENIAL OF BAIL FOR VIOLATION OF CONDITION OF BOND WHERE CHILD ALLEGED VICTIM.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.071TESTIMONY OF CHILD WHO IS VICTIM OF OFFENSE.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.072HEARSAY STATEMENT OF CERTAIN ABUSE VICTIMSPrinted as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.37EVIDENCE OF EXTRANEOUS OFFENSES OR ACTS.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 42A.251DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 43.25
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 66.102INFORMATION CONTAINED IN COMPUTERIZED CRIMINAL HISTORY SYSTEM.Printed as Section 43.25
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