Tex. Health & Safety Code § 712.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXEMPTIONS FROM CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a family, fraternal, or community cemetery that is not larger than 10 acres;
(2) an unincorporated association of plot owners not operated for profit;
(3) a church, a religious society or denomination, or an entity solely administering the temporalities of a church or religious society or denomination; or
(4) a public cemetery owned by this state, a county, or a municipality.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 634, Sec. 25, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 562, Sec. 36, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.712.htm
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- sha256 37353d87d41d8a34c905d94da46011241b6951c3fae47448b9ec9b611c104822
- 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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