Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 63.052
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 63.052, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 63.052. ESTABLISHMENT OF DNA DATABASE FOR MISSING OR UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS.
Official statutory text
(a) The board shall develop at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth a DNA database for any case based on the report of unidentified human remains or a report of a high-risk missing person.
(b) The database may be used to identify unidentified human remains and high-risk missing persons.
(c) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 320, Sec. 3, eff. June 17, 2011.
(b) The database may be used to identify unidentified human remains and high-risk missing persons.
(c) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 320, Sec. 3, eff. June 17, 2011.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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