GENERAL PENALTY
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Cotton v. State (1985)
Most recently applied in 212 F. Supp. 2d 673 - Dickerson v. Bailey (July 2002)
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 395, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person who violates a provision of this code for which a specific penalty is not provided is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one year or by both.
(b) The term "specific penalty," as used in this section, means a penalty which might be imposed as a result of a criminal prosecution.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.