
§ 3.305. CITATION BY PUBLICATION.  (a) If the residence 
of the respondent, other than a respondent reported to be a prisoner 
of war or missing on public service, is unknown, citation shall be 
published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the 
county in which the petition was filed.  If that county has no 
newspaper of general circulation, citation shall be published in a 
newspaper of general circulation in an adjacent county or in the 
nearest county in which a newspaper of general circulation is 
published.
	(b)  The notice shall be published once a week for two 
consecutive weeks before the hearing, but the first notice may not 
be published after the 20th day before the date set for the hearing.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997.

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