Tex. Health & Safety Code § 754.0233 · Chapter 754. ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS, AND RELATED EQUIPMENT
INJUNCTIVE RELIEF; CIVIL PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The attorney general or the executive director may institute an action for injunctive relief to prevent or restrain a violation or threatened violation of this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter.
(b) The attorney general or the executive director may institute an action to collect a civil penalty from a person that appears to be violating or threatening to violate this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter. A civil penalty assessed under this subsection may not exceed $5,000 per day for each violation.
(c) An action filed under this section must be filed in a district court in Travis County.
(d) The attorney general and the department may recover reasonable expenses incurred in obtaining injunctive relief or civil penalties under this section, including court costs, reasonable attorney's fees, investigative costs, witness fees, and deposition expenses.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 558 (S.B. 673), Sec. 21, eff. September 1, 2013.
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.754.htm
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