Texas Local Government Code Title 6, Chapter 201 - General Provisions

• Texas Section 201.001 - Short Title
  This subtitle may be cited as the Local Government Records Act. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
• Texas Section 201.002 - Purpose
  Recognizing that the citizens of the state have a right to expect, and the state has an obligation to foster, efficient and cost-effective government and...
• Texas Section 201.003 - Definitions
  In this subtitle: (1) "Commission" means the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. (2) "Custodian" means the appointed or elected public officer who by the...
• Texas Section 201.004 - Record Books
  If a state law relating to the keeping of records by a local government officer or employee requires the records to be kept in a...
• Texas Section 201.005 - Declaration Of Records As Public Property; Access
  (a) Local government records created or received in the transaction of official business or the creation or maintenance of which were paid for by public...
• Texas Section 201.006 - Records To Be Delivered To Successor In Office
  (a) A custodian of local government records shall, at the expiration of the custodian's term of office, appointment, or employment, deliver to the custodian's successor,...
• Texas Section 201.007 - Records Of Abolished Local Governments
  (a) If a local government is abolished or declared void pursuant to state law, the records of the local government shall be dealt with according...
• Texas Section 201.008 - Records Of Abolished Offices Of County Superintendents Of Schools
  (a) Records of an office of county superintendent of schools or county superintendent of education abolished under former Section 17.95, Education Code, before September 1,...
• Texas Section 201.009 - Access To Records
  (a) Local government records are subject to Chapter 552, Government Code. (b) Any local government record to which public access is denied under Chapter 552,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016