Tex. Gov't Code § 54.980 · Subchapter Q. CRIMINAL LAW MAGISTRATES IN TRAVIS COUNTY
WITNESS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A witness who appears before a magistrate and is sworn is subject to the penalties for perjury provided by law.
(b) A referring court may issue attachment against and may fine or imprison a witness whose failure to appear after being summoned or whose refusal to answer questions has been certified to the court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 849, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 26, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.54.htm
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- sha256 061d2011f86649f301472ba6b892c25f6012580e6edb4be2c13fbc25dd2efd31
- 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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