Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 49.11 · Subchapter A. DUTIES PERFORMED BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Text of article effective until April 01, 2027
(a) A justice of the peace may obtain a chemical analysis of a sample taken from a body in order to determine whether death was caused, in whole or in part, by the ingestion, injection, or introduction into the body of a poison or other chemical substance. A justice may obtain a chemical analysis under this article from a chemist, toxicologist, pathologist, or other medical expert.
(b) A justice of the peace shall obtain a chemical analysis under Subsection (a) of this article if requested to do so by the physician who performed an autopsy on the body.
(c) The commissioners court shall pay a reasonable fee to a person who conducts a chemical analysis at the request of a justice of the peace.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 529, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 202 (H.B. 1610), Sec. 3.01, eff. April 1, 2027.
Source of truth
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.49.htm
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