Title CV, Vernon's Civil Statutes

Art. 842a-1. OBLIGATIONS WHOLLY OR PARTLY INSURED BY UNITED STATES OR STATE, INVESTMENT IN. Savings and loan associations, banks, insurance companies, and other corporations or other organizations, similar or dissimilar, are hereby authorized to lend, and to buy and sell for thei…

Art. 974d-41. VALIDATION OF GOVERNMENTAL ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF MUNICIPALITIES OF MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION. Sec. 1. APPLICATION. This article applies to any municipality having a population of 1.5 million or more. Sec. 2. PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED. The governmental acts and proceedings…

Art. 1676a. AUDITORS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES: DUTIES, POWERS, REPORTS. Sec. 1. In all counties having a County Auditor and containing a population of not less than seventy-five thousand (75,000), and not more than eighty thousand (80,000), as shown by the last preceding Federal Censu…

Art. 1676b. AUDITORS IN COUNTIES OF 83,000 TO 83,350 HAVING NAVIGATION DISTRICTS AND OTHER DISTRICTS. Sec. 1. AUDIT; REPORT. In all counties having a County Auditor and containing a population of not less than eighty-three thousand (83,000) and not more than eighty-three thousand…

Art. 1677. GOVERNMENTAL ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTIES AFFECTED BY HURRICANE IKE Sec. 1. APPLICATION. This article applies to any county located in the Hurricane Ike disaster area, as defined by Section 704, Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 (Pub. L. No. 110-343). Sec. …

Art. 165-4. COTTON RESEARCH AWARD FUND. Sec. 1. By this Act it is expressly declared to be a State policy that the encouragement and stimulation of new uses for cotton shall be a matter of State-wide importance and concern and that the various agencies of the State Government, an…

Art. 2353d. LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES RESPECTING ANNUAL TAX FOR DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK PROTECTIVE FUND. Sec. 1. ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. In all counties in this State having ten thousand (10,000) or more cattle, sheep, and goats rendered for…

Art. 2372e. BUILDINGS FOR CANNERIES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. Sec. 1. That County Commissioners Courts of this State be, and the same are hereby authorized to purchase materials for the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the agencies of the State and Federal Governments in the…

Art. 2548a. PLEDGE OF STATE GENERAL FUND WARRANTS AS SECURITY FOR DEPOSITED FUNDS OF COUNTY OR SCHOOL DISTRICT IN LIEU OF BONDS. Any banking corporation in the State of Texas selected as the depository bank for County Funds, or for the funds of any School District in Texas, inclu…

Art. 2603b-2. CONVEYANCE OF TRACT TO EL PASO COUNTY; STADIUM SITE; LEASE AGREEMENT. Section 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to select a tract of land not exceeding sixty-five (65) acres upon the campus of Texas Western College…

Art. 2603b-4. CONVEYANCE OF TRACT TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS IN EL PASO COUNTY; SPECIAL EVENTS CENTER AND RELATED FACILITIES; JOINT USE; EASEMENTS. Section 1. (a) The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with any politica…

Art. 2603i. IMPROVEMENT OF FACILITIES OF INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE, PORT ARANSAS. Section 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized to improve the facilities of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas, an organized research unit of the…

Art. 2603j. EXCHANGE OF LAND WITH DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. Section 1. AUTHORITY OF BOARD OF REGENTS; TRADE AND EXCHANGE; DESCRIPTION; DEED. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to trade and exchange not…

Art. 2613a-10. CONVEYANCE OF LAND FOR LIVESTOCK INSECTS AND TOXICOLOGY LABORATORY AND COTTON DISEASE RESEARCH FACILITY. Section 1. The Board of Directors of Texas A & M University is authorized to convey to the United States a sufficient quantity of land on, or conveniently locat…

Art. 2632f. CONVEYANCE OF EASEMENT TO CITY OF LUBBOCK FOR EMERGENCY TELEPHONES. In consideration of the benefits derived from and accruing to the State of Texas and Texas Technological College from the installation, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance and repair …

Art. 2632f-1. CONVEYANCE OF PERMANENT WATER LINE EASEMENT. In consideration of the benefits which will accrue to the State of Texas and Texas Technological College from the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance by the City of Lubbock, a Home Rule Municipal Corpo…

Art. 3183b-1. EMINENT DOMAIN BY CERTAIN NONPROFIT CHARITABLE CORPORATIONS. Sec. 1. Except as provided by this section, and notwithstanding any other law, any nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for purely charitable purposes and which is directly affil…

Art. 3860. DECLARED COMMON CARRIERS. Each person, firm or corporation which shall do the business of an express company, upon railroads or otherwise, in this State, by the carrying of any kind of property, money, papers, packages or other things, are hereby declared to be common …

Art. 3861. REGULATION. The Railroad Commission of Texas shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to fix and establish reasonable and just rates of charges for each class or kind of property, money, papers, packages and other things, to be received and charged for by each expre…

Art. 3862. PENALTY FOR OVERCHARGE. Every express company doing business in this State which shall demand or receive a greater compensation than that which may be prescribed and fixed by said Commission for the transportation within this State of any class or kind of property, mon…

Art. 3863. POWERS OF COMMISSION. The said Commission shall have authority, and it shall be its duty to call upon such express companies for reports, and investigate their books in the same manner as may be prescribed by law for the regulation of railroad companies, and the said C…

Art. 3864. GENERAL OFFICE. Every incorporated express company doing business in this State shall keep a general office in this State at some place on the line of its transportation, in which it shall keep its charter, books, papers, accounts and contracts, or copies thereof, show…

Art. 3865. TO GIVE NOTICE, ETC. Every express company doing business in this State shall give notice in writing to the Railroad Commission of the name, and official designation, of the person or persons, officer or officers charged with the management of its general office in thi…

Art. 3866. PENALTY. Failure to comply with any provision of this title shall subject the offending company and any officer, agent, or employe thereof, so offending, to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by suit therefor. The…

Art. 4005. FREE PASSES PROHIBITED. No steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph company, telephone company or person or association of persons o…

Art. 4005a. FREE PASS LAW. Any president, director, officer, employé or agent of any steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company, or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph or telephone com…

Art. 4006. EXCEPTIONS. The preceding Article shall not be held to prevent any steam or electric interurban railway, telegraph company, or chartered transportation company, or sleeping car company, or the receivers or lessees thereof, or persons operating same, or the officers, ag…

Art. 4006-A. FREE TRANSPORTATION TO INDIAN WAR VETERANS. Article 4005 shall not be held to prevent any railway company or other companies mentioned therein from granting free transportation, franks, privileges, or passes to Indian War Veterans, subject to the same limitations as …

Art. 4006a. EXCEPTIONS. The preceding article shall not apply in cases where the laws of this State provide that such companies as are referred to in said article, or the receivers or lessees thereof, or persons operating the same, or the officers, agents or employés thereof, may…

Art. 4006b. USING ANOTHER'S PASS. If any person shall present, or offer to use, in his own behalf, any permit or frank whatever, to travel, pass or to convey any person or property or message which has been issued to any other person, or shall, knowing that he is not entitled und…

Art. 4007. DEFINITIONS. The word "employee" as used in this title shall be held to include all officers, agents or employees, actually employed and engaged in the service of such corporation, company, association of persons, including its officers, bona fide ticket and freight ag…

Art. 4008. SPECIAL RATES. Nothing in this title shall be held to prevent any corporation, association or person mentioned in the first article of this title from granting transportation at the rate of one cent per mile to veterans mentioned in the preceding article, or their wive…

Art. 4008a. AGED, BLIND OR DISABLED PERSONS; SPECIAL RATES. Transportation companies which operate in the municipalities of this state may set special reduced rates or fares for persons who are 60 years of age or older or who are blind or disabled. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 88, ch…

Art. 4008b. STREET RAILWAYS. All persons or corporations owning or operating street railways or motor buses in or upon the public streets of any city of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants are required: 1. To carry children of the age of twelve years or less for one-half th…

Art. 4009. FREE TRANSPORTATION. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prohibit any express company from hauling or carrying free of charge any package or property of its actual bona fide officers, attorneys, agents and employees while in the service of such express company,…

Art. 4010. ADVERTISING. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent any of the parties named in the first article hereof, publishers, editors or proprietors of newspapers or magazines, from making an exchange of mileage for advertising space in such newspaper or magazine,…

Art. 4011. DISCRIMINATION AS TO PERSONS. If any corporation, company, association, or person mentioned in Article 4005 shall grant to any sheriff, constable, or marshal a free pass over its lines of railroad, it shall issue like free transportation to each and every sheriff, cons…

Art. 4012. EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY. Any veteran of any of the wars mentioned in this title, their wives, widows or members of their families, and any minister of religion, or any fireman, sister of charity or member of any religious society of like character, who desires to receive…

Art. 4013. DISCRIMINATION BY DEVICE. No corporation, company or person mentioned in the first article of this title shall directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, demand, exchange, collect or receive from any person, firm, association or cor…

Art. 4013a. DISCRIMINATION BY DEVICE. No steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company, or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph or telephone company, shall directly or indirectly, by any s…

Art. 4014. REPORTS, ETC. Each corporation, company or persons subject to the provisions of this title shall, as and when requested by the Railroad Commission of Texas, furnish said Commission with any and all information which may at any time be requested by said Commission relat…

Art. 4015. PENALTY. Any corporation, company, association of persons or any person named in the first article of this title violating any provision of this title, except Article 4014, shall forfeit and pay to the State of Texas a penalty of five thousand dollars for each violatio…

Art. 4015a. UNLAWFULLY USING FREE PASS. Any person, other than the persons excepted by law, who uses such free ticket, free pass or free transportation, frank or privilege over any railway or other transportation line or sleeping or express car, telegraph or telephone line mentio…

Art. 4015b. EVADING LAW. Any director, officer, agent or any receiver, trustee, lessee or person acting for, or employed by, any company subject to the provisions of the preceding articles of this chapter, who alone, or with any other corporation, company, persons or party, shall…

Art. 4015c. MAY BE COMPELLED TO TESTIFY. In any investigation or prosecution under any provision of this chapter, the court or tribunal in which the same is pending may compel any person to attend and give testimony, and to produce such papers, books and documents as may be desir…

Art. 4015d. REDUCED RATE FOR OFFICERS. Any steam railroad company or any electric interurban railroad company or any person or persons operating the same, or any receiver or receivers, or lessee or lessees thereof, shall be permitted to transport between points wholly within this…