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2025 Texas Statutes
Penal Code
Title 9 - Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
Chapter 43 - Public Indecency
Subchapter B. Obscenity
Section 43.27. Duty to Report
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TX Penal Code § 43.27 (2025)
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Sec. 43.27. DUTY TO REPORT. (a) For purposes of this section, " visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26.
(b) A business that develops or processes visual material and determines that the material may be evidence of a criminal offense under this subchapter shall report the existence of the visual material to a local law enforcement agency.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1005, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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