Tex. Gov't Code § 311.012 · Subchapter B. CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES
TENSE, NUMBER, AND GENDER.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Words in the present tense include the future tense.
(b) The singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
(c) Words of one gender include the other genders.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.311.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 53635afdbf7e291b7b0f4ce0b6d929cb457b6f5a8f47613b38ca92d2087ec8a0
- 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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