Tex. Const. art. III, § 52l · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
DONATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ANIMAL.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
The legislature may authorize a state agency or a county, a municipality, or other political subdivision to transfer a law enforcement dog, horse, or other animal to the animal's handler or another qualified caretaker for no consideration on the animal's retirement or at another time if the transfer is in the animal's best interest.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Added Nov. 5, 2019.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.3.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 a280b9300f8f27848b945092cac2726910c3a0e338c804115252e0eba3970732
- 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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