Tex. Gov't Code § 312.003 · Subchapter A. CONSTRUCTION RULES FOR CIVIL STATUTES
TENSE, NUMBER, AND GENDER.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Words in the present or past tense include the future tense.
(b) The singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular unless expressly provided otherwise.
(c) The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter 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.312.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 30446418c3393e38a1828da82ec3268ea882331fb2be842f0cd3c15574a500fa
- 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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