Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 43.16. Taken To Department Of Corrections

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Art. 43.16. [800] TAKEN TO DEPARTMENT OF 
CORRECTIONS.  Immediately upon the receipt of such warrant, the 
sheriff shall transport such condemned person to the Director of 
the Department of Corrections, if he has not already been so 
delivered, and shall deliver him and the warrant aforesaid into the 
hands of the Director of the Department of Corrections and shall 
take from the Director of the Department of Corrections his receipt 
for such person and such warrant, which receipt the sheriff shall 
return to the office of the clerk of the court where the judgment of 
death was rendered.  For his services, the sheriff shall be entitled 
to the same compensation as is now allowed by law to sheriffs for 
removing or conveying prisoners under the provisions of Section 4 
of Article 1029 or 1030 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1925, 
as amended.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.                                

Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 812, ch. 291, Sec. 122, eff. 
Sept. 1, 1981.

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