HUMAN RESOURCES CODE
TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 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 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 code is to make the general
and permanent human resources law 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(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional,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 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2334, ch. 842, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1979.
§ 1.002. CONSTRUCTION OF CODE. The Code Construction
Act (Chapter 311, Government Code) applies to the construction of
each provision of this code, except as otherwise expressly provided
by this code.
Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2335, ch. 842, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1979. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, § 75, eff. Sept.
1, 1985.
§ 1.003. INTERNAL REFERENCES. In this code:
(1) a reference to a title, chapter, or section
without further identification is a reference to a title, chapter,
or section of this code; and
(2) a reference to a subtitle, subchapter, 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 code in which the reference appears.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 352, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
