Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code - Section 1.01. Purpose Of Code

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§ 1.01. PURPOSE OF CODE.  (a) This code is enacted as a 
part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun by 
the Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the 
legislature in Chapter 448, Acts of the 58th Legislature, 1963 
(Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).  The program 
contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's general and 
permanent statute law without substantive change.
	(b)  Consistent with the objectives of the statutory 
revision program, the purpose of this code is to make the general 
and permanent alcoholic beverage law more accessible and 
understandable, by:
		(1)  rearranging the statutes into a more logical 
order;                    
		(2)  employing a format and numbering system designed 
to facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future 
expansion of the law;
		(3)  eliminating repealed, duplicative, 
unconstitutional, expired, executed, and other ineffective 
provisions;  and
		(4)  restating the law in modern American English to 
the greatest extent possible.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 393, ch. 194, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.            

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