Tex. Gov't Code § 433.007 · Chapter 433. STATE OF EMERGENCY
CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter shall be construed broadly to effect its intent to recognize the governor's broad power of action in the exercise of the police power of the state to provide adequate control over persons and conditions during periods of impending or actual public crisis or disaster and to provide means for local governments to protect lives and property and maintain the operation of government.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.433.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 ef2ee455c5661072145171cd9edfa1b64393063adcb197093b4d4bb490920938
- 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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