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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 140A.061: DELIBERATE NONCOMPLIANCE.

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  1. CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE
  2. TITLE 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
  3. CHAPTER 140A. CIVIL RACKETEERING RELATED TO TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS
  4. SUBCHAPTER B. PROCEDURES AND EVIDENCE

(a) A person commits an offense if the person, with intent to avoid, evade, or prevent compliance with a civil investigative demand issued under this subchapter, knowingly removes from any place, conceals, withholds, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary material or otherwise provides inaccurate information.

(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by:

(1) a fine of not more than $5,000;

(2) confinement in a county jail for not more than one year; or

(3) both a fine and confinement.

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 685 (H.B. 29), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2017.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:00Z. Source file · JSON

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