Tex. Occ. Code § 165.157 · Subchapter D. CRIMINAL PENALTIES
DUTY TO ASSIST IN CERTAIN PROSECUTIONS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board and the board's employees shall assist the local prosecuting officers of each county in the enforcement of:
(1) state laws prohibiting the unlawful practice of medicine;
(2) this subtitle; and
(3) other matters.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, a prosecution is subject to the direction and control of the prosecuting officers. This subtitle does not deprive those officers of any authority vested by law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.165.htm
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- 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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