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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 49.11 — Chemical analysis
Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)
Part of Chapter 49: INQUESTS UPON DEAD BODIES, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.
Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 49.11
Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.
(a) A justice of the peace may obtain a chemical analysis of a sample taken from a body in order to determine whether death was caused, in whole or in part, by the ingestion, injection, or introduction into the body of a poison or other chemical substance. A justice may obtain a chemical analysis under this article from a chemist, toxicologist, pathologist, or other medical expert. (b) A justice of the peace shall obtain a chemical analysis under Subsection (a) of this article if requested to do so by the physician who performed an autopsy on the body. (c) The commissioners court shall pay a reasonable fee to a person who conducts a chemical analysis at the request of a justice of the peace.
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