Tex. Health & Safety Code § 193.009 · Chapter 193. DEATH RECORDS
BURIAL RECORDS.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The person in charge of premises on which interments are made shall keep a record of the bodies interred or otherwise disposed of on the premises.
(b) The records must include for each decedent:
(1) the decedent's name;
(2) the place of death;
(3) the date of interment or disposal;
(4) the name and address of the funeral director; and
(5) any other information required by the state registrar.
(c) The records are open to official inspection at all times.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.193.htm
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- sha256 e3ed6d9d6aa750aa5b582303113ef9aad50f72521f937eaaaa793dd0c49fb301
- 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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