Tex. Health & Safety Code § 715.010 · Chapter 715. CERTAIN HISTORIC CEMETERIES
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A nonprofit corporation authorized to restore, operate, and maintain a historic cemetery shall, not later than the 10th day after the date of the order of the court under Section 715.008:
(1) publish notice of the time and place of the organizational meeting of the members of the nonprofit corporation in a newspaper having general circulation in the county in which the cemetery is located or, if there is no newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the cemetery is located, in a newspaper of general circulation in an adjoining county; and
(2) post written notice of the time and place of the meeting at the cemetery.
(b) The notice published under Subsection (a)(1) must be published not later than the 30th day before the date of the meeting and repeated twice before the date of the meeting. The notice may not be published more than once a week.
(c) The written notice posted under Subsection (a)(2) must be posted not later than the 30th day before the date of the hearing and must remain posted until the date of the hearing.
(d) At the organizational meeting of the members of a nonprofit corporation authorized to restore, operate, and maintain a historic cemetery, a majority of the members present and voting at the meeting shall elect a board of directors of the nonprofit corporation. Directors and officers are not required to be members of the nonprofit corporation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.715.htm
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