Tex. Water Code § 7.197 · Subchapter E. CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
ARRAIGNMENT AND PLEADINGS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In any criminal action instituted against a private corporation under this subchapter:
(1) appearance is for the purpose of arraignment; and
(2) the corporation has 10 full days after the day the arraignment takes place and before the day the trial begins to file written pleadings.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.7.htm
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- 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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