Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 443 - State Preservation Board

• Texas Section 443.001 - Board
  The State Preservation Board is an agency of the state. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
• Texas Section 443.002 - Sunset Provision
  The State Preservation Board is subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the board is abolished...
• Texas Section 443.003 - Membership
  (a) The board consists of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, one senator appointed by the lieutenant governor, one representative appointed...
• Texas Section 443.0031 - Lobbying Prohibition
  A person may not serve as the public member of the board or act as the general counsel to the board if the person is...
• Texas Section 443.0032 - Antidiscrimination Policy For Appointments To Board
  Appointments to the board shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the appointees. Added by...
• Texas Section 443.0033 - Grounds For Removal From Board
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board if the public member: (1) violates a prohibition established by Section 443.0031; (2) cannot because...
• Texas Section 443.004 - Chairman; Meetings
  (a) The governor is chairman of the board. (b) The board shall meet at least twice each year and at other times at the call...
• Texas Section 443.0041 - Application Of Open Meetings And Administrative Procedure Laws
  The board is subject to the open meetings law, Chapter 551, and the administrative procedure law, Chapter 2001. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 443.0042 - Information On Responsibilities Of Board Members And Employees
  The executive director or the executive director's designee shall provide to members of the board and to board employees, as often as necessary, information regarding...
• Texas Section 443.0043 - Separation Of Policymaking And Management Responsibilities
  The board shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policymaking responsibilities of the board and the management responsibilities of the executive director and...
• Texas Section 443.0044 - Accessibility Plan And Compliance
  The board shall comply with federal and state laws related to program and facility accessibility. The executive director shall also prepare and maintain a written...
• Texas Section 443.0045 - Public Notification Of Board Activities
  (a) The board shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the board and the procedures by which complaints are filed with and...
• Texas Section 443.0046 - Public Testimony At Board Meetings
  The board shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the board and to speak on any...
• Texas Section 443.0047 - Maintaining Information On Complaints Filed With Board
  The board shall keep information about each complaint filed with the board. The information shall include: (1) the date the complaint is received; (2) the...
• Texas Section 443.0048 - Information On Status Of Complaints
  The board shall keep a file about each written complaint filed with the board that the board has authority to resolve. The board shall provide...
• Texas Section 443.005 - Architect Of The Capitol
  (a) The executive director may employ an architect of the Capitol who serves under the direction of the executive director. (b) The architect of the...
• Texas Section 443.0051 - Executive Director
  (a) The board may employ an executive director who serves under the sole direction of the board. (b) The executive director shall: (1) employ staff...
• Texas Section 443.0052 - Equal Employment Opportunity
  (a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to assure implementation of a program of equal...
• Texas Section 443.0053 - Employee Performance Evaluations
  The executive director or the executive director's designee shall develop a system of annual performance evaluations that are based on documented employee performance. All merit...
• Texas Section 443.0054 - Compensatory Time For Employees Exempt From Flsa
  For employees who are not subject to the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), as...
• Texas Section 443.006 - Curator Of The Capitol
  (a) The executive director shall employ a curator of the Capitol. The curator of the Capitol must have at least a master's degree and four...
• Texas Section 443.007 - General Powers And Duties Of Board
  (a) The board shall: (1) preserve, maintain, and restore the Capitol, the General Land Office Building, their contents, and their grounds; (2) define the buildings'...
• Texas Section 443.0071 - Review Of Construction In Capitol Complex
  (a) A proposal to construct a building, monument, or other improvement in the Capitol complex must be submitted to the board for its review and...
• Texas Section 443.0072 - Powers And Duties Relating To Other Buildings And Grounds
  In regard to any buildings, contents, or grounds over which the board has jurisdiction, the board has the same powers and duties it has in...
• Texas Section 443.008 - Advisory Committees
  The board may appoint advisory committees to aid it in carrying out its duties. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,...
• Texas Section 443.0081 - Historical Representation Advisory Committee
  (a) To ensure that the diverse history of Texas is accurately represented in the Capitol Complex, the historical representation advisory committee shall provide guidance to...
• Texas Section 443.009 - Offices, Records, And Documents In The Capitol
  (a) The board and the employees of the board may not move the office of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives,...
• Texas Section 443.010 - Donations
  (a) The board and the employees of the board shall develop plans and programs to solicit, and may solicit, gifts, money, and items of value...
• Texas Section 443.0101 - Capitol Fund
  (a) Money and securities donated to the board shall be held in trust outside the treasury by the comptroller in a special fund to be...
• Texas Section 443.0102 - Application Of State Funds Reform Act
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), all money paid to the board under this chapter is subject to Subchapter F, Chapter 404. (b) The...
• Texas Section 443.0103 - Capital Renewal Trust Fund
  (a) The capital renewal trust fund is created as a trust fund outside the treasury with the comptroller and shall be administered by the board,...
• Texas Section 443.011 - Responsibility For Items
  Furniture, furnishings, fixtures, works of art, and decorative objects for which the board has responsibility under this chapter are not part of the Texas State...
• Texas Section 443.012 - Fire Inspection
  The state fire marshal shall inspect the Capitol annually and when requested by the board and shall report the results of the inspection to the...
• Texas Section 443.013 - Vending Facilities
  (a) The board may approve one or more vending facilities in the Capitol and determine the location of facilities, including vending machines. A vending facility...
• Texas Section 443.0131 - Rental Of Space To News Media
  (a) The board may set and collect a fee from news media representatives for the rental of space in the Capitol. The fee shall be...
• Texas Section 443.0132 - Fee For Use Of General Land Office Building
  The board may set and collect a fee for public use of the building for special activities. The fee shall be set in an amount...
• Texas Section 443.0133 - Fee For Copy Of Copyrighted Material
  (a) The board may set and collect a fee for providing a copy, for personal or educational use, of state archival records and other historical...
• Texas Section 443.0135 - Alcoholic Beverages
  (a) The following activities are prohibited in the Capitol, including the Capitol extension and on its grounds: (1) the sale of alcoholic beverages; (2) the...
• Texas Section 443.014 - Texans Awarded The Congressional Medal Of Honor
  (a) The board shall include in its long-range master plan for the maintenance, preservation, restoration, and modification of the Capitol and the grounds of the...
• Texas Section 443.015 - Parking Meters
  (a) The board may expend any available funds for the installation of parking meters in appropriate areas of the Capitol Complex for which parking and...
• Texas Section 443.0151 - Visitor Parking Facilities
  (a) The board shall operate a garage or similar parking facility for the benefit of visitors to the Capitol Complex. The parking facility is under...
• Texas Section 443.0152 - Capitol Grounds Monuments
  (a) The board may not approve the installation of a permanent monument on the grounds under the jurisdiction of the board, and erection or construction...
• Texas Section 443.01525 - Tejano Memorial Monument
  The State Preservation Board shall establish a Tejano memorial monument on the historic south grounds of the Capitol that pays tribute to the contributions of...
• Texas Section 443.01526 - African American Texans Monument
  The State Preservation Board shall establish an African American Texans memorial monument on the State Capitol grounds that pays tribute to the contributions of African...
• Texas Section 443.0153 - Parking Fees Not Subject To Sales Tax
  Parking fees paid through parking meters maintained under this chapter and parking fees paid in a visitor parking facility under this chapter or Chapter 445...
• Texas Section 443.016 - Use Of Indigenous Plants And Trees
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, to the extent reasonable and practical only plants and trees indigenous to this state may be used...
• Texas Section 443.017 - Transfer Of Certain Historical Items
  (a) A state agency or other state entity that possesses a state-owned item identified by the curator of the Capitol and the board as an...
• Texas Section 443.018 - Regulation Of Visitors And Vendors
  (a) The board shall adopt rules that regulate the actions of visitors in the Capitol or on the grounds of the Capitol. (b) The rules...
• Texas Section 443.019 - Deposit For Use Of Capitol Or Capitol Grounds
  (a) The board may require and collect a standardized deposit from a person or entity that uses the Capitol or the grounds of the Capitol...
• Texas Section 443.020 - Pass Keys To Rooms In The Capitol
  Any person who shall make or have made or keep in his possession a pass or master key to the rooms and apartments in the...
• Texas Section 443.021 - State History Museum
  The board is authorized to develop, construct, govern, and operate, from funds appropriated for that purpose, a state history museum to be located within the...
• Texas Section 443.022 - Audits
  (a) The transactions, funds, and programs of the board are subject to audit by the state auditor in accordance with Chapter 321. (b) The state...
• Texas Section 443.023 - Purchase And Lease Requirements For Certain Expenditures
  Subtitle D, Title 10, does not apply to a purchase or lease under this chapter. The executive director, as appropriate, may approve in writing the...
• Texas Section 443.0231 - Information Technologies
  Chapter 2054 does not apply to the board. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1462, Sec. 4, eff. June 17, 2001.
• Texas Section 443.024 - Display Of The Texas And United States Flags
  (a) The flag of the State of Texas and the flag of the United States shall be flown on the same pole above the south...
• Texas Section 443.025 - Woodlawn
  (a) Title to the historic property Woodlawn, also commonly known as Pease Mansion and Shivers Mansion, located at No. 6 Niles Road in Austin, is...
• Texas Section 443.026 - Tours
  (a) The board may provide for public tours of the Capitol and the other buildings and grounds under the jurisdiction of the board. (b) The...
• Texas Section 443.027 - Publications And Publicity
  (a) Publicity of the buildings, contents, and grounds subject to the jurisdiction of the board is essential to the board's statutory objectives. For that purpose,...
• Texas Section 443.028 - Chapel
  The board may establish and maintain a chapel in the Capitol. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 14, eff. May 21, 1999.
• Texas Section 443.029 - Governor's Mansion
  (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the board is responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the Governor's Mansion and the protection of...
• Texas Section 443.0295 - Governor's Mansion Renewal Trust Fund
  (a) The Governor's Mansion renewal trust fund is created as a trust fund outside the treasury with the comptroller and shall be administered by the...
• Texas Section 443.030 - Support Organizations
  The board may establish, maintain, and participate in the operation of one or more organizations of persons whose purpose is to raise funds for or...

Last modified: September 28, 2016