APPLICATION
Known as the Code Construction Act
The act spans §§ 311.001 to 311.036 (27 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Smith v. Flack (1987)
Most recently applied in Robbins Chevrolet Co. v. Motor Vehicle Board (April 1999)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, 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.
This chapter applies to:
(1) each code enacted by the 60th or a subsequent legislature as part of the state's continuing statutory revision program;
(2) each amendment, repeal, revision, and reenactment of a code or code provision by the 60th or a subsequent legislature;
(3) each repeal of a statute by a code; and
(4) each rule adopted under a code.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.