Art. 60.07. UNIFORM INCIDENT FINGERPRINT CARD. (a) The Department of Public Safety, in consultation with the council, shall design, print, and distribute to each law enforcement agency in the state a uniform incident fingerprint card. (b) The incident card must: (1) be serially numbered with an incident number in such a manner that the individual incident of arrest may be readily ascertained; and (2) be a multiple part form that can be transmitted with the offender through the criminal justice process and that allows each agency to report required data to the Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. (c) Subject to available telecommunications capacity, the Department of Public Safety shall develop the capability to receive by electronic means from a law enforcement agency the information on the uniform incident fingerprint card. The information must be in a form that is compatible to the form required of data supplied to the criminal justice information system. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 785, Sec. 6.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1990, 71st Leg., 6th C.S., ch. 25, Sec. 28, eff. June 18, 1990; Subsec. (c) added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 790, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 1025, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

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