Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 63 - Missing Children And Missing Persons
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Article 63.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Abduct" has the meaning assigned by Section 20.01, Penal Code. (1-a) "Child" means a person under 18 years of age. (2)...
- Texas Article 63.0015 - Presumption Regarding Parentage
For purposes of this chapter, a person named as a child's mother or father in the child's birth certificate is presumed to be the child's...
- Texas Article 63.0016 - Attempted Child Abduction By Relative
For purposes of this chapter, "attempted child abduction" does not include an attempted abduction in which the actor was a relative, as defined by Section...
- Texas Article 63.002 - Missing Children And Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse
(a) The missing children and missing persons information clearinghouse is established within the Department of Public Safety. (b) The clearinghouse is under the administrative direction...
- Texas Article 63.003 - Function Of Clearinghouse
(a) The clearinghouse is a central repository of information on missing children, missing persons, and attempted child abductions. (b) The clearinghouse shall: (1) establish a...
- Texas Article 63.004 - Report Forms
(a) The Department of Public Safety shall distribute missing children and missing person report forms. (b) A missing child or missing person report may be...
- Texas Article 63.0041 - Reporting Of Attempted Child Abduction
A law enforcement officer or local law enforcement agency reporting an attempted child abduction to the clearinghouse shall make the report by use of the...
- Texas Article 63.005 - Distribution Of Information
(a) The clearinghouse shall print and distribute posters, flyers, and other forms of information containing descriptions of missing children. (b) The clearinghouse shall also provide...
- Texas Article 63.006 - Release Of Dental Records
(a) At the time a report is made for a missing child, the person to whom the report is given shall give or mail to...
- Texas Article 63.007 - Release Of Medical Records
(a) At the time a report is made for a missing child or adult, the law enforcement officer taking the report shall give a medical...
- Texas Article 63.008 - Missing Children Program
(a) The Texas Education Agency shall develop and administer a program for the location of missing children who may be enrolled within the Texas school...
- Texas Article 63.009 - Law Enforcement Requirements
(a) Local law enforcement agencies, on receiving a report of a missing child or a missing person, shall: (1) if the subject of the report...
- Texas Article 63.0091 - Law Enforcement Requirements Regarding Reports Of Certain Missing Children
(a) The public safety director of the Department of Public Safety shall adopt rules regarding the procedures for a local law enforcement agency on receiving...
- Texas Article 63.0092 - Option To Designate Missing Child As High Risk
(a) This article applies to a report of a missing child who is at least 14 years of age and who a local law enforcement...
- Texas Article 63.010 - Attorney General To Require Compliance
The attorney general shall require each law enforcement agency to comply with this chapter and may seek writs of mandamus or other appropriate remedies to...
- Texas Article 63.011 - Missing Children Investigations
On the written request made to a law enforcement agency by a parent, foster parent, managing or possessory conservator, guardian of the person or the...
- Texas Article 63.012 - Report Of Inquiry
A law enforcement agency to which a request has been made under Article 63.011 of this code shall report to the parent on the results...
- Texas Article 63.013 - Information To Clearinghouse
Each law enforcement agency shall provide to the missing children and missing persons information clearinghouse: (1) any information that would assist in the location or...
- Texas Article 63.014 - Cross-checking And Matching
(a) The clearinghouse shall cross-check and attempt to match unidentified bodies with missing children or missing persons. When the clearinghouse discovers a possible match between...
- Texas Article 63.015 - Availability Of Information Through Other Agencies
(a) On the request of any law enforcement agency, a city or state agency shall furnish the law enforcement agency with any information about a...
- Texas Article 63.016 - Donations
The Department of Public Safety may accept money donated from any source to assist in financing the activities and purposes of the missing children and...
- Texas Article 63.017 - Confidentiality Of Certain Records
Clearinghouse records that relate to the investigation by a law enforcement agency of a missing child, a missing person, or an unidentified body and records...
- Texas Article 63.018 - Death Certificates
A physician who performs a postmortem examination on the body of an unidentified person shall complete and file a death certificate in accordance with Chapter...
- Texas Article 63.019 - School Records System
(a) On enrollment of a child under 11 years of age in a school for the first time at the school, the school shall: (1)...
- Texas Article 63.020 - Duty Of Schools And Other Entities To Flag Missing Children's Records
(a) When a report that a child under 11 years of age is missing is received by a law enforcement agency, the agency shall immediately...
- Texas Article 63.021 - System For Flagging Records
(a) On receipt of notification by a law enforcement agency or the clearinghouse regarding a missing child under 11 years of age, the school, day...
SUBCHAPTER B UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH MISSING PERSONS DNA DATABASE
- Texas Article 63.022 - Removal Of Flag From Records
(a) On the return of a missing child under 11 years of age, the law enforcement agency shall notify each school or day care facility...
- Texas Article 63.051 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the board of regents of the University of North Texas System. (2) "Center" means the University of North Texas...
- Texas Article 63.0515 - Criminal Justice Agency
For purposes of this subchapter, the center is a criminal justice agency that performs forensic DNA analyses on evidence, including evidence related to a case...
- Texas Article 63.052 - Establishment Of Dna Database For Missing Or Unidentified Persons
(a) The board shall develop at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth a DNA database for any case based on...
- Texas Article 63.053 - Information Stored In Database
(a) The database required in Article 63.052 may contain only DNA genetic markers that are commonly recognized as appropriate for human identification. Except to the...
- Texas Article 63.054 - Comparison Of Samples
The center shall compare DNA samples taken from unidentified human remains with DNA samples taken from personal articles belonging to high-risk missing persons or from...
- Texas Article 63.055 - Standards Collection; Storage
In consultation with the center, the board by rule shall develop standards and guidelines for the collection of DNA samples submitted to the center and...
- Texas Article 63.056 - Collection Of Samples From Unidentified Human Remains
(a) A physician acting on the request of a justice of the peace under Subchapter A, Chapter 49, a county coroner, a county medical examiner,...
- Texas Article 63.057 - Duty Of Law Enforcement Agency To Notify Appropriate Persons Regarding Provision Of Voluntary Sample
Not later than the 30th day after the date a report of a high-risk missing person is filed, the law enforcement agency shall inform a...
- Texas Article 63.058 - Release Form
(a) The center shall develop a standard release form that authorizes a parent or other appropriate person to voluntarily provide under Article 63.057 a DNA...
- Texas Article 63.059 - Protocol For Obtaining Samples Relating To High-risk Missing Persons
(a) The law enforcement agency shall take DNA samples from parents or other appropriate persons under Article 63.057 in any manner prescribed by the center....
- Texas Article 63.060 - Submission Of Sample To Center
(a) Before submitting to the center a DNA sample obtained under Article 63.057, the law enforcement agency shall reverify the status of a high-risk missing...
- Texas Article 63.061 - Destruction Of Samples
All DNA samples extracted from a living person shall be destroyed after a positive identification is made and a report is issued. Transferred from Education...
- Texas Article 63.062 - Confidentiality
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the results of a forensic DNA analysis performed by the center are confidential. (b) The center may disclose...
- Texas Article 63.063 - Criminal Penalty
(a) A person who collects, processes, or stores a DNA sample from a living person for forensic DNA analysis under this subchapter commits an offense...
- Texas Article 63.064 - Civil Penalty
A person who collects, processes, or stores a DNA sample from a living person for forensic DNA analysis under this subchapter and who intentionally violates...
- Texas Article 63.065 - Missing Persons Dna Database Fund
(a) The missing persons DNA database fund is a separate account in the general revenue fund. (b) Notwithstanding Article 56.54(g), the legislature may appropriate money...
- Texas Article 63.066 - Backlog Of Unidentified Human Remains: Advisory Committee And Outsourcing
(a) The center shall create an advisory committee, consisting of medical examiners, law enforcement officials, and other interested persons as determined appropriate by the center,...
Last modified: September 28, 2016