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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 89.001

DEFINITIONS

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 786, Sec. 1, eff

In this chapter:

(1) "Community corrections facility" means a facility established under Chapter 509, Government Code.

(2) "County jail" means a facility operated by or for a county for the confinement of persons accused or convicted of an offense and includes:

(A) a facility operated by or for a county for the confinement of persons accused or convicted of an offense;

(B) a county jail or a correctional facility authorized by Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code; and

(C) a county correctional center authorized by Subchapter H, Chapter 351, Local Government Code.

(3) "Governing body" means:

(A) the commissioners court of a county, for a county jail;

(B) the district judges governing a community corrections facility, for a community corrections facility;

(C) the governing body of a municipality, for a jail operated by or under contract to a municipality; or

(D) the community supervision and corrections department, for a jail operated under contract to a community supervision and corrections department.

(4) "Health authority" has the meaning assigned by Section 121.021.

(5) "Jail" means:

(A) a county jail; or

(B) a facility for the confinement of persons accused of an offense that is:

(i) operated by a municipality or a vendor under contract with a municipality under Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code; or

(ii) operated by a vendor under contract with a community supervision and corrections department under Chapter 76, Government Code.

(6) "Local health department" means a health department created under Subchapter D, Chapter 121.

(7) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine in a state of the United States.

(8) "Public health district" means a health district established under Subchapter E, Chapter 121.

(9) "Screening test" means a rapid analytical laboratory or other procedure to determine the need for further diagnostic evaluation.

(10) "Tuberculosis" means a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or other members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.