Texas Local Government Code Title 5, Chapter 159 - Financial Disclosure By County Officers And Employees

SUBCHAPTER A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE BY CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICERS

• Texas Section 159.001 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  This subchapter applies only to: (1) a county officer or candidate for a county office of a county with a population of 100,000 or more;...
• Texas Section 159.002 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "county officer" means a county judge, county commissioner, or county attorney. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1134, Sec. 18, eff....
• Texas Section 159.003 - Financial Statement Required
  (a) A county officer, candidate for a county office, justice of the peace, or candidate for the office of justice of the peace shall file...
• Texas Section 159.004 - Filing Dates; Timeliness Of Filing
  (a) A county officer or justice of the peace shall file the financial statement required by this subchapter within the time prescribed by Section 572.026,...
• Texas Section 159.005 - Preparation Of Forms
  (a) The county clerk may: (1) design a form to be used for filing the financial statement required by this subchapter; or (2) require that...
• Texas Section 159.006 - Duplicate Statements
  If a person has filed a financial statement under one provision of this subchapter covering the preceding calendar year, the person is not required to...
• Texas Section 159.007 - Public Access To Statements
  (a) Financial statements filed under this subchapter are public records. The county clerk shall maintain the statements in separate alphabetical files and in a manner...
• Texas Section 159.0071 - Notification To Prosecuting Attorney
  The county clerk of each county in which a person is required to file a financial statement under this chapter shall maintain a list of...
• Texas Section 159.008 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) A county officer, candidate for county office, justice of the peace, or candidate for the office of justice of the peace commits an offense...
• Texas Section 159.009 - Venue
  An offense under this subchapter, including perjury, may be prosecuted in any county in which it may be prosecuted under the Code of Criminal Procedure....

SUBCHAPTER B FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE BY OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

• Texas Section 159.010 - Civil Penalty
  (a) A person who determines that a person required to file a financial statement under this subchapter has failed to do so may notify in...
• Texas Section 159.031 - County Covered By Subchapter
  This subchapter applies only to a county with a population of 125,000 or more. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 38(a), eff....
• Texas Section 159.032 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "County officer" means a sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county clerk, district clerk, county treasurer, county auditor, or county purchasing agent. The...
• Texas Section 159.033 - Financial Disclosure Reporting System
  (a) The commissioners court of the county may adopt by order a financial disclosure reporting system for county officers, precinct officers, county judicial officers, candidates...
• Texas Section 159.034 - Filing Requirement
  (a) The commissioners court may require the report to be filed with the clerk of the commissioners court, the county auditor, or any other county...
• Texas Section 159.0341 - Timeliness Of Filing
  (a) A person is considered to have timely filed a report under this subchapter if: (1) the report is filed in accordance with Section 572.029,...
• Texas Section 159.035 - Civil Penalty
  (a) If a report is determined to be late, the person responsible for filing the report is civilly liable to the county for $100. The...

SUBCHAPTER C FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE BY COUNTY JUDICIAL OFFICERS

• Texas Section 159.036 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) An officer, candidate, or employee required to file a report by an order adopted under this subchapter commits an offense if the person knowingly...
• Texas Section 159.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Commission" means the Texas Ethics Commission. (2) "County judicial officer" means the judge of a statutory county court or statutory probate...
• Texas Section 159.052 - Filing Requirement
  (a) A county judicial officer or a candidate for office as a county judicial officer shall file with the county clerk or the commission a...
• Texas Section 159.053 - Filing Dates; Timeliness Of Filing
  (a) A county judicial officer shall file the financial statement required by this subchapter within the time prescribed by Section 572.026, Government Code. A candidate...
• Texas Section 159.054 - Preparation Of Forms
  (a) The county clerk may: (1) design a form to be used for filing the financial statement required by this subchapter; or (2) require that...
• Texas Section 159.055 - Public Access To Statements
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a financial statement filed under this subchapter or a document filed under Section 159.052(b) is a public record....
• Texas Section 159.056 - Failure To File; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) is a county judicial officer or a candidate for office as a county judicial officer;...

Last modified: September 28, 2016