Tex. Health & Safety Code § 248A.259 · Subchapter F. ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY
COLLECTION OF PENALTY.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the person does not pay the penalty and the enforcement of the penalty is not stayed, the penalty may be collected.
(b) The attorney general may sue to collect the penalty and may recover reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in recovering the penalty.
(c) A penalty collected under this subchapter shall be deposited in the state treasury in the general revenue fund.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1168 (S.B. 492), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.248A.htm
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