Tex. Health & Safety Code § 715.004 · Chapter 715. CERTAIN HISTORIC CEMETERIES
CONTENTS OF PETITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A petition filed by a nonprofit corporation under this chapter must contain a legal description of the real property comprising the historic cemetery and must aver to the court that:
(1) the nonprofit corporation, through its members and incorporators, has a religious, ethnic, historic, or cultural relationship to the cemetery;
(2) the cemetery was established more than 75 years before the date the action was commenced;
(3) a viable organization of plot owners of the cemetery does not exist; and
(4) the cemetery threatens or endangers the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare.
(b) The petition must be accompanied by the written plan described by Section 715.005.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.715.htm
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