Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.009
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.009, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 191.009. USE OF DIACRITICAL MARKS.
Official statutory text
(a) In this section, "diacritical mark" means a mark used in Latin script to change the sound of the letter to which it is added or used to distinguish the meaning of the word in which the letter appears. The term includes accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, and cedillas.
(b) The state registrar shall ensure that a vital statistics record issued under this title properly records any diacritical mark used in a person's name.
(b) The state registrar shall ensure that a vital statistics record issued under this title properly records any diacritical mark used in a person's name.
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