Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
LOCATION OF CREMATORY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A crematory may be constructed on or adjacent to a perpetual care cemetery or adjacent to a funeral establishment.
(b) A crematory, other than a crematory registered with the commission on September 1, 2003, must:
(1) be adjacent to a perpetual care cemetery or funeral establishment; and
(2) be owned or operated by the person that owns or operates the perpetual care cemetery or funeral establishment.
(c) In this section, "adjacent to" means that a part of the property on which the crematory is to be constructed has a common boundary with:
(1) the perpetual care cemetery or property on which the funeral establishment is located; or
(2) a public easement, a utility easement, or a railroad right-of-way that has a common boundary with the perpetual care cemetery or property on which the funeral establishment is located.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 178, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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.716.htm
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- 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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