Purpose

Sec. 1.001. PURPOSE. The purpose of this code is to make the law encompassed by this code more accessible and understandable by: (1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order; (2) employing a format and numbering system designed to facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future expansion of the law; (3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, expired, executed, and other ineffective provisions; and (4) restating the law in modern American English to the greatest extent possible. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.