Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 59.024 · Chapter 59. FORFEITURE OF CONTRABAND
MULTIPLE RECOVERY PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The attorney representing the state may proceed under Article 59.02, 59.021, 59.022, or 59.023, or any combination of those articles. If property or proceeds are awarded or forfeited to the state under this chapter for an underlying offense, a court may not award or forfeit additional property or proceeds that would exceed the highest fair market value of the contraband subject to forfeiture for that offense. For purposes of this article, the highest fair market value may be calculated at any time during the period in which the applicable person owned, possessed, or had an interest in the contraband.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1357 (S.B. 1451), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.59.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
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 59.02FORFEITURE OF CONTRABAND.Printed as Article 59.02, 59.021, 59.022, or 59.023
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 59.021FORFEITURE OF SUBSTITUTE PROPERTY.Printed as Article 59.02, 59.021, 59.022, or 59.023
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 59.022PROPERTY REMOVED FROM THIS STATE.Printed as Article 59.02, 59.021, 59.022, or 59.023
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 59.023SUIT FOR PROCEEDS.Printed as Article 59.02, 59.021, 59.022, or 59.023
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