Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 62.201. Additional Public Notice For Individuals Subject To Civil Commitment

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Art. 62.201. ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE FOR INDIVIDUALS 
SUBJECT TO CIVIL COMMITMENT.  (a) On receipt of notice under this 
chapter that a person subject to registration who is civilly 
committed as a sexually violent predator is due to be released from 
a penal institution or intends to move to a new residence in this 
state, the department shall, not later than the seventh day after 
the date on which the person is released or the seventh 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.
	(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 this article 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)  The department's duty to provide notice under this 
article in regard to a particular person ends on the date on which a 
court releases the person from all requirements of the civil 
commitment process.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 
2005.     

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