Tex. Health & Safety Code § 713.029 · Subchapter B. COUNTY REGULATION OF CEMETERIES
COUNTY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE BURIAL GROUNDS FOR VETERANS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A commissioners court may purchase burial grounds to be used exclusively for the burial of honorably discharged persons who:
(1) have served in the United States armed forces during a war in which the United States participated; and
(2) die without leaving sufficient means to pay funeral expenses.
(b) A commissioners court may not purchase burial grounds under this section if there is a national military cemetery or other military plot in the county in which honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces may be buried free of charge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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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