LABOR 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 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		(3)  eliminating repealed, duplicative, 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 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 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.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.                    


	§ 1.004.  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 the statute.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.