Texas Statutes
Local Government Code
Title 6 - Records

Section 191.008. Authority to Establish Computerized Electronic Information System - Sec. 191.008. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH COMPUTERIZED ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SYSTEM. (a)...

Section 191.009. Electronic Filing and Recording - Sec. 191.009. ELECTRONIC FILING AND RECORDING. (a) A county clerk...

Section 191.010. Authority to Require Photo Identification to File Certain Documents in Certain Counties - Sec. 191.010. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION TO FILE CERTAIN...

Section 191.011. Authority of Clerks to Obtain and Retain Identifying Information in Certain Counties - Sec. 191.011. AUTHORITY OF CLERKS TO OBTAIN AND RETAIN IDENTIFYING...

Chapter 192 - Instruments to Be Recorded by Counties

Section 192.001. General Items - Sec. 192.001. GENERAL ITEMS. The county clerk shall record each...

Section 192.0015. Subdivision Plat - Sec. 192.0015. SUBDIVISION PLAT. In recording a plat or replat...

Section 192.002. Military Discharge Records - Sec. 192.002. MILITARY DISCHARGE RECORDS. (a) The county clerk shall...

Section 192.003. Records of New or Enlarged County - Sec. 192.003. RECORDS OF NEW OR ENLARGED COUNTY. (a) If...

Section 192.005. Certain Probate Records - Sec. 192.005. CERTAIN PROBATE RECORDS. The commissioners court of a...

Section 192.006. County Court Records - Sec. 192.006. COUNTY COURT RECORDS. (a) The county clerk is...

Section 192.007. Records of Releases and Other Actions - Sec. 192.007. RECORDS OF RELEASES AND OTHER ACTIONS. (a) To...

Chapter 193 - Recording and Indexing by Counties

Section 193.001. Manner of Recording - Sec. 193.001. MANNER OF RECORDING. (a) The county clerk shall...

Section 193.002. Classification and Index of Records Not on Microfilm - Sec. 193.002. CLASSIFICATION AND INDEX OF RECORDS NOT ON MICROFILM....

Section 193.003. Index to Real Property Records - Sec. 193.003. INDEX TO REAL PROPERTY RECORDS. (a) The county...

Section 193.004. Index to Judgments - Sec. 193.004. INDEX TO JUDGMENTS. (a) The county clerk shall...

Section 193.005. Indexes to Other Records - Sec. 193.005. INDEXES TO OTHER RECORDS. (a) In a manner...

Section 193.007. Translation of County Records - Sec. 193.007. TRANSLATION OF COUNTY RECORDS. (a) The commissioners court...

Section 193.008. Classification of Records on Microfilm - Sec. 193.008. CLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS ON MICROFILM. (a) If a...

Section 193.009. Indexing of Records on Microfilm - Sec. 193.009. INDEXING OF RECORDS ON MICROFILM. (a) An instrument...

Section 193.010. Revision of Indexes of Records on Microfilm - Sec. 193.010. REVISION OF INDEXES OF RECORDS ON MICROFILM. (a)...

Section 193.011. Registers of Court Records on Microfilm - Sec. 193.011. REGISTERS OF COURT RECORDS ON MICROFILM. (a) A...

Section 193.012. Return of Original Instruments - Sec. 193.012. RETURN OF ORIGINAL INSTRUMENTS. After an original instrument...

Section 193.013. Computerized Index for Certain Records - Sec. 193.013. COMPUTERIZED INDEX FOR CERTAIN RECORDS. An index for...

Chapter 195 - Electronic Filing of Records With and Recording by County Clerk

Section 195.001. Definitions - Sec. 195.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the...

Section 195.002. Adoption of Rules - Sec. 195.002. ADOPTION OF RULES. (a) The commission shall adopt...

Section 195.003. Persons Authorized to File Electronically - Sec. 195.003. PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO FILE ELECTRONICALLY. (a) The following...

Section 195.004. Notice of Confirmation - Sec. 195.004. NOTICE OF CONFIRMATION. (a) A county clerk that...

Section 195.005. Time Electronic Document or Other Instrument Considered Filed or Recorded - Sec. 195.005. TIME ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OR OTHER INSTRUMENT CONSIDERED FILED...

Section 195.006. Additional Fee Prohibited - Sec. 195.006. ADDITIONAL FEE PROHIBITED. The fee to file or...

Section 195.007. Access to Electronic Document or Other Instrument Recorded Electronically - Sec. 195.007. ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OR OTHER INSTRUMENT RECORDED...

Section 195.008. Electronic Recording Advisory Committee - Sec. 195.008. ELECTRONIC RECORDING ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) The Electronic Recording...

Section 195.009. Filing - Sec. 195.009. FILING. For purposes of this chapter, an electronic...

Subtitle C - Records Provisions Applying to More Than One Type of Local Government

Chapter 201 - General Provisions

Section 201.001. Short Title - Sec. 201.001. SHORT TITLE. This subtitle may be cited as...

Section 201.002. Purpose - Sec. 201.002. PURPOSE. Recognizing that the citizens of the state...

Section 201.003. Definitions - Sec. 201.003. DEFINITIONS. In this subtitle: (1) "Commission" means the...

Section 201.004. Record Books - Sec. 201.004. RECORD BOOKS. If a state law relating to...

Section 201.005. Declaration of Records as Public Property; Access - Sec. 201.005. DECLARATION OF RECORDS AS PUBLIC PROPERTY; ACCESS. (a)...

Section 201.006. Records to Be Delivered to Successor in Office - Sec. 201.006. RECORDS TO BE DELIVERED TO SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE....

Section 201.007. Records of Abolished Local Governments - Sec. 201.007. RECORDS OF ABOLISHED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (a) If a...

Section 201.008. Records of Abolished Offices of County Superintendents of Schools - Sec. 201.008. RECORDS OF ABOLISHED OFFICES OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF...

Section 201.009. Access to Records - Sec. 201.009. ACCESS TO RECORDS. (a) Local government records are...

Chapter 202 - Destruction and Alienation of Records

Section 202.001. Destruction of Records - Sec. 202.001. DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS. (a) A local government record...

Section 202.002. Litigation and Open Records Requests - Sec. 202.002. LITIGATION AND OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS. (a) Regardless of...

Section 202.003. Method of Destruction - Sec. 202.003. METHOD OF DESTRUCTION. (a) A local government record...

Section 202.004. Alienation of Records - Sec. 202.004. ALIENATION OF RECORDS. (a) A local government record...

Section 202.005. Right of Recovery - Sec. 202.005. RIGHT OF RECOVERY. (a) The governing body may...

Section 202.006. Destruction of Nonrecord Material - Sec. 202.006. DESTRUCTION OF NONRECORD MATERIAL. (a) Material that is...

Section 202.007. Personal Liability - Sec. 202.007. PERSONAL LIABILITY. A custodian of local government records,...

Section 202.008. Penalty: Destruction or Alienation of Record - Sec. 202.008. PENALTY: DESTRUCTION OR ALIENATION OF RECORD. An officer...

Section 202.009. Penalty: Possession of Record by Private Entity - Sec. 202.009. PENALTY: POSSESSION OF RECORD BY PRIVATE ENTITY. (a)...

Chapter 203 - Management and Preservation of Records

Subchapter A. Elective County Offices

Section 203.001. Records Management Officer - Sec. 203.001. RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER. Each elected county officer is...

Section 203.002. Duties and Responsibilities of Elected County Officers as Records Management Officers - Sec. 203.002. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICERS AS...

Section 203.003. Duties of Commissioners Court - Sec. 203.003. DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS COURT. The commissioners court of...

Section 203.004. Director and Librarian - Sec. 203.004. DIRECTOR AND LIBRARIAN. The director and librarian shall...

Section 203.005. Records Management Program to Be Established - Sec. 203.005. RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO BE ESTABLISHED. (a) On...

Subchapter B. All Other Local Government Offices

Section 203.021. Duties and Responsibilities of Governing Body - Sec. 203.021. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNING BODY. The governing...

Section 203.022. Duties and Responsibilities of Custodians - Sec. 203.022. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CUSTODIANS. (a) Custodians of...

Section 203.023. Duties of Records Management Officer - Sec. 203.023. DUTIES OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER. The records management...

Section 203.024. Director and Librarian - Sec. 203.024. DIRECTOR AND LIBRARIAN. The director and librarian shall...

Section 203.025. Designation of Records Management Officer - Sec. 203.025. DESIGNATION OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER. (a) On or...

Section 203.026. Records Management Program to Be Established - Sec. 203.026. RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO BE ESTABLISHED. (a) On...

Subchapter C. Records Control Schedules

Section 203.041. Preparation of Records Control Schedules - Sec. 203.041. PREPARATION OF RECORDS CONTROL SCHEDULES. (a) On or...

Section 203.042. Retention Periods - Sec. 203.042. RETENTION PERIODS. (a) A retention period for each...

Section 203.044. Initial Destruction of Obsolete Records - Sec. 203.044. INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF OBSOLETE RECORDS. (a) In preparing...

Section 203.046. Recordkeeping Requirements - Sec. 203.046. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS. As the governing body may require,...

Section 203.047. New Local Governments - Sec. 203.047. NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. A local government established after...

Section 203.048. Care of Records of Permanent Value - Sec. 203.048. CARE OF RECORDS OF PERMANENT VALUE. The commission...

Section 203.049. Transfer of Records of Permanent Value - Sec. 203.049. TRANSFER OF RECORDS OF PERMANENT VALUE. (a) The...

Section 203.050. Inspection of Permanent Records - Sec. 203.050. INSPECTION OF PERMANENT RECORDS. (a) The director and...

Subchapter D. Records and Information Provided to Comptroller

Section 203.061. Applicability of Subchapter - Sec. 203.061. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies only to...

Section 203.062. Provision of Certain Records and Other Information to Comptroller - Sec. 203.062. PROVISION OF CERTAIN RECORDS AND OTHER INFORMATION TO...

Section 203.063. Penalties for Noncompliance - Sec. 203.063. PENALTIES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE. (a) If a special purpose...

Chapter 204 - Microfilming of Records

Section 204.001. Definitions - Sec. 204.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Microfilm" means roll...

Section 204.002. Authorization - Sec. 204.002. AUTHORIZATION. Any local government record may be maintained...

Section 204.003. Microfilm Produced Under Prior Law - Sec. 204.003. MICROFILM PRODUCED UNDER PRIOR LAW. (a) All microfilm...

Section 204.004. Standards and Procedures - Sec. 204.004. STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES. (a) The commission shall adopt...

Section 204.005. Rules to Be Updated - Sec. 204.005. RULES TO BE UPDATED. The director and librarian...

Section 204.006. Indexing - Sec. 204.006. INDEXING. An index to a microfilm record must...

Section 204.007. Destruction of Original Records - Sec. 204.007. DESTRUCTION OF ORIGINAL RECORDS. (a) The original of...

Section 204.009. Microfilm of Permanent Records to Be Supplied - Sec. 204.009. MICROFILM OF PERMANENT RECORDS TO BE SUPPLIED. (a)...

Section 204.010. Commercial Microfilm Storage Facilities - Sec. 204.010. COMMERCIAL MICROFILM STORAGE FACILITIES. (a) The commission may...

Section 204.011. Effective as Original Record - Sec. 204.011. EFFECTIVE AS ORIGINAL RECORD. (a) A microfilmed record...

Chapter 205 - Electronic Storage of Records

Section 205.001. Definitions - Sec. 205.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Electronic storage" means...

Section 205.002. Authorization - Sec. 205.002. AUTHORIZATION. Any local government record data may be...

Section 205.003. Standards and Procedures to Be Adopted - Sec. 205.003. STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES TO BE ADOPTED. (a) The...

Section 205.004. Rules to Be Updated - Sec. 205.004. RULES TO BE UPDATED. The director and librarian...

Section 205.005. Supreme Court Rules - Sec. 205.005. SUPREME COURT RULES. This chapter is not intended...

Section 205.006. Index - Sec. 205.006. INDEX. An index to local government record data...

Section 205.008. Destruction of Source Documents - Sec. 205.008. DESTRUCTION OF SOURCE DOCUMENTS. (a) The source document,...

Section 205.009. Denial of Access Prohibited - Sec. 205.009. DENIAL OF ACCESS PROHIBITED. A person under contract...

Section 205.010. Security Breach Notification by Local Government - Sec. 205.010. SECURITY BREACH NOTIFICATION BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT. (a) In...

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Texas Statutes Local Government Code Title 6 - Records

Texas Statutes
Local Government Code
Title 6 - Records