Tex. Tax Code § 154.407 · Subchapter H. ENFORCEMENT OF TAX
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE IN CASES INVOLVING SEIZED CIGARETTES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The comptroller may photograph cigarettes seized under Section 154.403 before their sale under this subchapter.
(b) In a proceeding arising out of this chapter, including a criminal proceeding, the state is not required to produce the actual cigarettes.
(c) The photographs are admissible in evidence under rules of law governing the admissibility of photographs. The photographs are as admissible in evidence as are the cigarettes themselves.
(d) A person's rights of discovery and inspection of tangible physical evidence are satisfied if the photographs taken under this section are made available to the person by the state on order of any court or other entity having jurisdiction over the proceeding.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 68 (S.B. 934), Sec. 21, eff. September 1, 2011.
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