Tex. Gov't Code § 405.011 · Subchapter B. DUTIES
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The secretary of state shall arrange and preserve books, maps, parchments, records, documents, and papers properly deposited in the secretary of state's office and sealed with the state seal.
(b) A copy of an original deposited under this section is as legal and conclusive in evidence in a state court as the original.
(c) On request of the governor, the legislature, or a house of the legislature, the secretary of state shall furnish a copy of an original deposited under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 297, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.405.htm
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- sha256 34f768b65f5011c6e7a028a12abe396a58ed7aee63c263cb8d825ffcb13fa812
- 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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