Tex. Health & Safety Code § 713.026 · Subchapter B. COUNTY REGULATION OF CEMETERIES
USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND PROPERTY PROHIBITED; EXCEPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Sections 713.027, 713.0271, and 713.028, a trustee of a fund established under this subchapter or a member of the commissioners court or any other elected county officer may not pay or use public funds or county employees, equipment, or property to maintain a neglected or unkept public or private cemetery.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a county if:
(1) the county owned the cemetery from September 1, 1976, through January 1, 1979; or
(2) the county used county funds, employees, equipment, or property to maintain a county-owned cemetery during 1976.
(c) A county described by Subsection (b)(1) or (2) may continue to own the cemetery or to provide maintenance for the cemetery that qualified the county for the exception if the county files with the secretary of state a certified copy of a commissioners court order certifying that the county qualifies to own or maintain a cemetery under this section. The order must be kept in a register entitled "County-Owned and -Operated Cemeteries."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 492 (H.B. 4179), Sec. 3, eff. June 7, 2019.
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.713.htm
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Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 713.027CEMETERY OWNED BY COUNTY OF 8,200 OR LESS.Printed as Sections 713.027, 713.0271, and 713.028
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 713.0271CEMETERY OWNED BY CERTAIN COUNTIES.Printed as Sections 713.027, 713.0271, and 713.028
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 713.028COUNTY CARE OF CEMETERY OLDER THAN 50 YEARS.Printed as Sections 713.027, 713.0271, and 713.028
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