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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 8.01 — Officer may require aid

Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

Part of Chapter 8: SUPPRESSION OF RIOTS AND OTHER DISTURBANCES, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 8.01

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.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 8.01Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

When any officer authorized to execute process is resisted, or when he has sufficient reason to believe that he will meet with resistance in executing the same, he may command as many of the citizens of his county as he may think proper; and the sheriff may call any military company in the county to aid him in overcoming the resistance, and if necessary, in seizing and arresting the persons engaged in such resistance.

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