Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 53.006 · Chapter 53. CODE OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES
PRINTED CODE AS EVIDENCE.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality may have printed, under the direction of the governing body of the municipality, a copy of the code that is authenticated and approved by the mayor's signature and attested by the secretary of the municipality.
(b) In a court, the printed code is prima facie evidence of the existence and regular enactment of the ordinance adopting the code. A court shall admit the printed code in evidence without further proof.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.53.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 2ffd7bb0826bec2ee25b3b918fbf73b87166ad18ae0b4034c728b22f7d778580
- Composed by
- 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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