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Texas Government Code - Section 552.027. Exception: Information Available Commercially; Resource Material

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§ 552.027. EXCEPTION:  INFORMATION AVAILABLE 
COMMERCIALLY;  RESOURCE MATERIAL.  (a) A governmental body is not 
required under this chapter to allow the inspection of or to provide 
a copy of information in a commercial book or publication purchased 
or acquired by the governmental body for research purposes if the 
book or publication is commercially available to the public.
	(b)  Although information in a book or publication may be 
made available to the public as a resource material, such as a 
library book, a governmental body is not required to make a copy of 
the information in response to a request for public information.
	(c)  A governmental body shall allow the inspection of 
information in a book or publication that is made part of, 
incorporated into, or referred to in a rule or policy of a 
governmental body.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 1035, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995.       

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