Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.003
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.003, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 191.003. POWERS AND DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONER AND DEPARTMENT.
Official statutory text
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt necessary rules for collecting, recording, transcribing, compiling, and preserving vital statistics.
(a-1) The department shall:
(1) supervise the vital statistics unit; and
(2) appoint the director of the vital statistics unit.
(b) In an emergency, the executive commissioner may suspend any part of this title that hinders the uniform and efficient registration of vital events and may substitute emergency rules designed to expedite that registration under disaster conditions.
(a-1) The department shall:
(1) supervise the vital statistics unit; and
(2) appoint the director of the vital statistics unit.
(b) In an emergency, the executive commissioner may suspend any part of this title that hinders the uniform and efficient registration of vital events and may substitute emergency rules designed to expedite that registration under disaster conditions.
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