2009 Texas Code
TRANSPORTATION CODE
TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS  

TRANSPORTATION CODE

TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 1.001. PURPOSE OF CODE. (a) This code is enacted as a

part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun

by the Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the

legislature in the law codified as Section 323.007, Government

Code. The program contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the

state's general and permanent statute law without substantive

change.

(b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revision

program, the purpose of this code is to make the law encompassed

by this code more accessible and understandable by:

(1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;

(2) employing a format and numbering system designed to

facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future

expansion of the law;

(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional,

expired, executed, and other ineffective provisions; and

(4) restating the law in modern American English to the greatest

extent possible.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 1.002. CONSTRUCTION OF CODE. Chapter 311, Government Code

(Code Construction Act), applies to the construction of each

provision in this code except as otherwise expressly provided by

this code.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 1.003. REFERENCE IN LAW TO STATUTE REVISED BY CODE. A

reference in a law to a statute or a part of a statute revised by

this code is considered to be a reference to the part of this

code that revises that statute or part of that statute.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Sec. 1.004. DEFINITION. In this code, "Department of Public

Safety" means the Department of Public Safety of the State of

Texas.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.