Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 195.007 · Chapter 195. ELECTRONIC FILING OF RECORDS WITH AND RECORDING BY COUNTY CLERK
ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OR OTHER INSTRUMENT RECORDED ELECTRONICALLY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An electronic document or other instrument filed or recorded electronically must be available for public inspection in the same manner and at the same time as an instrument filed or recorded by other means.
(b) The county clerk shall provide a requestor, as defined by Section 552.003, Government Code, of an electronic document or other instrument filed or recorded electronically under this chapter with electronic copies of the electronic document or other instrument in a form that is capable of being processed by the use of technology that is generally available and nonproprietary in nature. The county clerk shall provide the copies to the requestor at the cost of producing the copies in accordance with Section 552.262, Government Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 58, Sec. 2, eff. May 10, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 699 (S.B. 335), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2005.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.195.htm
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