Tex. Gov't Code § 603.002 · Chapter 603. PROVISION OF DOCUMENTS AND FEES OF OFFICE
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The secretary of state, Commissioner of the General Land Office, comptroller, commissioner of agriculture, Banking Commissioner, state librarian, or attorney general:
(1) shall furnish to a person on request a certified copy, under seal, of any document in the officer's office that is available under law to that person; and
(2) may not demand or collect a fee from an officer of the state for a copy of any document in the respective offices or for a certificate in relation to a matter in the respective offices if the copy is required in the performance of an official duty of the office of the state officer requesting the copy.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 8.38, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.603.htm
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- sha256 31c66763f01c5545965b45443518fd5c8681108594dc022a5bbedee7b1e89b5b
- 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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