Tex. Health & Safety Code § 711.057 · Subchapter D. ENFORCEMENT
EMERGENCY ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioner may issue an emergency order that takes effect immediately if the commissioner finds that immediate and irreparable harm is threatened to the public or a beneficiary under a sale of the exclusive right of sepulture in a plot.
(b) An emergency order remains in effect unless stayed by the commissioner.
(c) The person named in the order may request in writing an opportunity for a hearing to show that the emergency order should be stayed. On receipt of the request, the commissioner shall set a time for the hearing before the 22nd day after the date the commissioner received the request, unless extended at the request of the person named in the order.
(d) The hearing is an administrative hearing relating to the validity of findings that support immediate effect of the order.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 220 (H.B. 52), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2013.
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.711.htm
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