INTENTION IN ENACTMENT OF STATUTES
Known as the Code Construction Act
The act spans §§ 311.001 to 311.036 (27 sections).
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case Rose v. State (1988)
Most recently applied in Crabtree, Mark Alan (October 2012)
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.
In enacting a statute, it is presumed that:
(1) compliance with the constitutions of this state and the United States is intended;
(2) the entire statute is intended to be effective;
(3) a just and reasonable result is intended;
(4) a result feasible of execution is intended; and
(5) public interest is favored over any private interest.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.