Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 201.005 · Chapter 201. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DECLARATION OF RECORDS AS PUBLIC PROPERTY; ACCESS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Local government records created or received in the transaction of official business or the creation or maintenance of which were paid for by public funds are declared to be public property and are subject to the provisions of this subtitle and Subchapter J, Chapter 441, Government Code.
(b) A local government officer or employee does not have, by virtue of the officer's or employee's position, any personal or property right to a local government record even though the officer or employee developed or compiled it.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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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.201.htm
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