Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 62.056. Additional Public Notice For Certain Offenders

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Art. 62.056. ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE FOR CERTAIN 
OFFENDERS.  (a) On receipt of notice under this chapter that a 
person subject to registration is due to be released from a penal 
institution, has been placed on community supervision or juvenile 
probation, or intends to move to a new residence in this state, the 
department shall verify the person's numeric risk level assigned 
under this chapter.  If the person is assigned a numeric risk level 
of three, the department shall, not later than the seventh day after 
the date on which the person is released or the 10th day after the 
date on which the person moves, provide written notice mailed or 
delivered to at least each address, other than a post office box, 
within a one-mile radius, in an area that has not been subdivided, 
or a three-block area, in an area that has been subdivided, of the 
place where the person intends to reside.  In providing written 
notice under this subsection, the department shall use employees of 
the department whose duties in providing the notice are in addition 
to the employees' regular duties.
	(b)  The department shall provide the notice in English and 
Spanish and shall include in the notice any information that is 
public information under this chapter.  The department may not 
include any information that is not public information under this 
chapter.
	(c)  The department shall establish procedures for a person 
with respect to whom notice is provided under Subsection (a), other 
than a person subject to registration on the basis of an 
adjudication of delinquent conduct, to pay to the department all 
costs incurred by the department in providing the notice.  The 
person shall pay those costs in accordance with the procedures 
established under this subsection.
	(d)  On receipt of notice under this chapter that a person 
subject to registration under this chapter is required to register 
or verify registration with a local law enforcement authority and 
has been assigned a numeric risk level of three, the local law 
enforcement authority may provide notice to the public in any 
manner determined appropriate by the local law enforcement 
authority, including publishing notice in a newspaper or other 
periodical or circular in circulation in the area where the person 
intends to reside, holding a neighborhood meeting, posting notices 
in the area where the person intends to reside, distributing 
printed notices to area residents, or establishing a specialized 
local website.  The local law enforcement authority may include in 
the notice only information that is public information under this 
chapter.
	(e)  An owner, builder, seller, or lessor of a single-family 
residential real property or any improvement to residential real 
property or that person's broker, salesperson, or other agent or 
representative in a residential real estate transaction does not 
have a duty to make a disclosure to a prospective buyer or lessee 
about registrants under this chapter.  To the extent of any conflict 
between this subsection and another law imposing a duty to disclose 
information about registered sex offenders, this subsection 
controls.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1557, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.  
Subsec. (a) amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 177, Sec. 4, eff. 
Sept. 1, 2001;  Subsec. (b) amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 
211, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;  Subsec. (d) amended by Acts 2001, 
77th Leg., ch. 177, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;  Subsec. (e) amended 
by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.  
Redesignated from Vernon's Ann.C.C.P. art. 62.045 and amended by 
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.

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