FastLaws.com terms of use, copyright notice and source notes

Updated November 16, 2007.

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Source Notes

Statutory provisions of the Texas codes and statutes presented here were obtained from files publicly available on Texas State Agency web sites and are used here in conformity with the Texas State Agency policy as posted on the web site of the Texas Department of Information Resources at http://www.dir.state.tx.us/standards/link_policy.htm

The statutory provisions processed and presented here were obtained January 2007 from the Texas state government web site at the following link: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/statutes.html

The bills enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2007 presented here were obtained June 2007 from the Texas state government web site at the following link: ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/

Neither Freelance Enterprises, Inc., nor the information derived from state web sites and presented here is endorsed by any state agency. The files obtained from state web sites have been further processed by proprietary software for presentation here.

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