Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 62 - Sex Offender Registration Program

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Article 62.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety. (2) "Local law enforcement authority" means, as applicable, the office of the chief of...
• Texas Article 62.002 - Applicability Of Chapter
  (a) This chapter applies only to a reportable conviction or adjudication occurring on or after September 1, 1970. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c),...
• Texas Article 62.003 - Determination Regarding Substantially Similar Elements Of Offense
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the department is responsible for determining whether an offense under the laws of another state, federal law, the...
• Texas Article 62.004 - Determination Regarding Primary Registration Authority
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), for each person subject to registration under this chapter, the department shall determine which local law enforcement authority...
• Texas Article 62.0045 - Centralized Registration Authority
  (a) The commissioners court of a county may designate the office of the sheriff of the county or may, through interlocal agreement, designate the office...
• Texas Article 62.005 - Central Database; Public Information
  (a) The department shall maintain a computerized central database containing the information required for registration under this chapter. The department may include in the computerized...
• Texas Article 62.006 - Information Provided To Peace Officer On Request
  The department shall establish a procedure by which a peace officer or employee of a law enforcement agency who provides the department with a driver's...
• Texas Article 62.0061 - Request For Online Identifiers By Social Networking Sites
  (a) On request by a commercial social networking site, the department may provide to the commercial social networking site: (1) all public information that is...
• Texas Article 62.007 - Risk Assessment Review Committee; Sex Offender Screening Tool
  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall establish a risk assessment review committee composed of at least seven members, each of whom serves on...
• Texas Article 62.008 - General Immunity
  The following persons are immune from liability for good faith conduct under this chapter: (1) an employee or officer of the Texas Department of Criminal...
• Texas Article 62.009 - Immunity For Release Of Public Information
  (a) The department, a penal institution, a local law enforcement authority, or an authority for campus security may release to the public information regarding a...

SUBCHAPTER B REGISTRATION AND VERIFICATION

• Texas Article 62.010 - Rulemaking Authority
  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and the department may adopt any rule necessary to implement this chapter. Reenacted and...
• Texas Article 62.051 - Registration: General
  (a) A person who has a reportable conviction or adjudication or who is required to register as a condition of parole, release to mandatory supervision,...
• Texas Article 62.052 - Registration: Extrajurisdictional Registrants
  (a) An extrajurisdictional registrant is required to comply with the annual verification requirements of Article 62.058 in the same manner as a person who is...
• Texas Article 62.053 - Prerelease Notification
  (a) Before a person who will be subject to registration under this chapter is due to be released from a penal institution, the Texas Department...
• Texas Article 62.054 - Circumstances Requiring Notice To Superintendent Or School Administrator
  (a) A local law enforcement authority shall provide notice to the superintendent and each administrator under Article 62.053(e) or 62.055(f) only if: (1) the victim...
• Texas Article 62.055 - Change Of Address; Lack Of Address
  (a) If a person required to register under this chapter intends to change address, regardless of whether the person intends to move to another state,...
• Texas Article 62.0551 - Change In Online Identifiers
  (a) If a person required to register under this chapter changes any online identifier included on the person's registration form or establishes any new online...
• Texas Article 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...
• Texas Article 62.057 - Status Report By Supervising Officer Or Local Law Enforcement Authority
  (a) If the juvenile probation officer, community supervision and corrections department officer, or parole officer supervising a person subject to registration under this chapter receives...
• Texas Article 62.058 - Law Enforcement Verification Of Registration Information
  (a) A person subject to registration under this chapter who has for a sexually violent offense been convicted two or more times, received an order...
• Texas Article 62.059 - Registration Of Persons Regularly Visiting Location
  (a) A person subject to this chapter who on at least three occasions during any month spends more than 48 consecutive hours in a municipality...
• Texas Article 62.060 - Requirements Relating To Driver's License Or Personal Identification Certificate
  (a) A person subject to registration under this chapter shall apply to the department in person for the issuance of, as applicable, an original or...
• Texas Article 62.061 - Dna Specimen
  A person required to register under this chapter shall comply with a request for a DNA specimen made by a law enforcement agency under Section...
• Texas Article 62.062 - Limitation On Newspaper Publication
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a local law enforcement authority may not publish notice in a newspaper or other periodical or circular concerning...

SUBCHAPTER C EXPIRATION OF DUTY TO REGISTER; GENERAL

• Texas Article 62.063 - Prohibited Employment
  (a) In this article: (1) "Amusement ride" has the meaning assigned by Section 2151.002, Occupations Code. (2) "Bus" has the meaning assigned by Section 541.201,...
• Texas Article 62.101 - Expiration Of Duty To Register
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Subchapter I, the duty to register for a person ends when the person dies if the person...

SUBCHAPTER D PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN

• Texas Article 62.102 - Failure To Comply With Registration Requirements
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person is required to register and fails to comply with any requirement of this chapter. (b) An...
• Texas Article 62.151 - Definitions
  For purposes of this subchapter, a person: (1) is employed or carries on a vocation if the person works or volunteers on a full-time or...
• Texas Article 62.152 - Registration Of Certain Workers Or Students
  (a) A person is subject to this subchapter and, except as otherwise provided by this article, to the other subchapters of this chapter if the...

SUBCHAPTER E PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO CIVIL COMMITMENT

• Texas Article 62.153 - Registration Of Workers Or Students At Institutions Of Higher Education
  (a) Not later than the later of the seventh day after the date on which the person begins to work or attend school or the...
• Texas Article 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...
• Texas Article 62.202 - Verification Of Individuals Subject To Commitment
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 62.058, if an individual subject to registration under this chapter is civilly committed as a sexually violent predator, the person shall report...

SUBCHAPTER F REMOVAL OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION

• Texas Article 62.203 - Failure To Comply: Individuals Subject To Commitment
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person, after commitment as a sexually violent predator but before the person is released from all requirements...

SUBCHAPTER G EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION FOR

• Texas Article 62.251 - Removing Registration Information When Duty To Register Expires
  (a) When a person is no longer required to register as a sex offender under this chapter, the department shall remove all information about the...

SUBCHAPTER H EXEMPTIONS FROM REGISTRATION FOR CERTAIN JUVENILES

• Texas Article 62.301 - Exemption From Registration For Certain Young Adult Sex Offenders
  (a) If eligible under Subsection (b) or (c), a person required to register under this chapter may petition the court having jurisdiction over the case...
• Texas Article 62.351 - Motion And Hearing Generally
  (a) During or after disposition of a case under Section 54.04, Family Code, for adjudication of an offense for which registration is required under this...
• Texas Article 62.352 - Order Generally
  (a) The court shall enter an order exempting a respondent from registration under this chapter if the court determines: (1) that the protection of the...
• Texas Article 62.353 - Motion, Hearing, And Order Concerning Person Already Registered
  (a) A person who has registered as a sex offender for an adjudication of delinquent conduct, regardless of when the delinquent conduct or the adjudication...
• Texas Article 62.354 - Motion, Hearing, And Order Concerning Person Required To Register Because Of Out-of-state Adjudication
  (a) A person required to register as a sex offender in this state because of an out-of-state adjudication of delinquent conduct may file in the...
• Texas Article 62.355 - Waiver Of Hearing
  (a) The prosecuting attorney may waive the state's right to a hearing under this subchapter and agree that registration under this chapter is not required....
• Texas Article 62.356 - Effect Of Certain Orders
  (a) A person who has an adjudication of delinquent conduct that would otherwise be reportable under Article 62.001(5) does not have a reportable adjudication of...

SUBCHAPTER I EARLY TERMINATION OF CERTAIN PERSONS'

• Texas Article 62.357 - Appeal Of Certain Orders
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 56.01, Family Code, on entry by a juvenile court of an order under Article 62.352(a) exempting a respondent from registration under this...
• Texas Article 62.401 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "council" means the Council on Sex Offender Treatment. Reenacted and amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1008 (H.B. 867), Sec. 1.01,...
• Texas Article 62.402 - Determination Of Minimum Required Registration Period
  (a) The department by rule shall determine the minimum required registration period under federal law for each reportable conviction or adjudication under this chapter. (b)...
• Texas Article 62.403 - Individual Risk Assessment
  (a) The council by rule shall establish, develop, or adopt an individual risk assessment tool or a group of individual risk assessment tools that: (1)...
• Texas Article 62.404 - Motion For Early Termination
  (a) A person required to register under this chapter who has requested and received an individual risk assessment under Article 62.403 may file with the...
• Texas Article 62.405 - Hearing On Petition
  (a) After reviewing a motion filed with the court under Article 62.404, the court may: (1) deny without a hearing the movant's request for early...
• Texas Article 62.406 - Costs Of Individual Risk Assessment And Of Court
  A person required to register under this chapter who files a motion for early termination of the person's registration obligation under this chapter is responsible...
• Texas Article 62.407 - Effect Of Order Granting Early Termination
  (a) If, after notice to the person and to the prosecuting attorney and a hearing, the court grants a motion filed under Article 62.404 for...
• Texas Article 62.408 - Nonapplicability
  This subchapter does not apply to a person without a reportable conviction or adjudication who is required to register as a condition of parole, release...

Last modified: September 28, 2016