2009 Texas Code
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 2. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS  

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

TITLE 2. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 101.001. PURPOSE OF TITLE. (a) This title 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 Chapter 448, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular

Session, 1963 (Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).

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 title is to make the law encompassed

by this title 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(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional, expired,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.

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,

1985.

Art. 101.002. CONSTRUCTION OF TITLE. The Code Construction Act

(Article 5429b-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) applies to the

construction of each provision in this title, except as otherwise

expressly provided by this title.

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,

1985.

Art. 101.003. INTERNAL REFERENCES. In this title:

(1) a reference to a chapter or article without further

identification is a reference to a chapter or article of this

title; and

(2) a reference to a subchapter, article, subsection,

subdivision, paragraph, or other numbered or lettered unit

without further identification is a reference to a unit of the

next larger unit of this title in which the reference appears.

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,

1985.