Tex. Tax Code § 6.155 · Subchapter A. APPRAISAL DISTRICTS
CERTAIN COMMUNICATIONS BY TAXING UNITS PROHIBITED; PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A member of the governing body, officer, or employee of a taxing unit commits an offense if the person directly or indirectly communicates with the chief appraiser or another employee of the appraisal district in which the taxing unit participates for the purpose of influencing the value at which property in the district is appraised unless the person owns or leases the property that is the subject of the communication.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 644 (H.B. 988), Sec. 5, eff. January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TX/htm/TX.6.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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