Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. art. 5204 · Chapter 12. RESTRICTIONS ON LABOR
FAILURE OF WITNESS TO APPEAR.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If the witness summoned as aforesaid fails to appear or to make statements of the facts within his knowledge under oath, or to sign the same after it has been reduced to writing, he shall be guilty of contempt of court and may be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and may be attached and imprisoned in jail until he shall make a full statement of all facts within his knowledge with reference to the matter inquired about.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1907, 30th Leg., p. 142.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CV/htm/CV.83.12.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 915de688a3c1ec5a6fd089377cd4cb77680397813e1cb47bd5c3ca6417c2d0a9
- 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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