CHAPTER 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 2. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Art. 101.001. PURPOSE OF TITLE. (a) This title is enacted as a
part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun
by the Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the
legislature in Chapter 448, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1963 (Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
The program contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's
general and permanent statute law without substantive change.
(b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revision
program, the purpose of this title is to make the law encompassed
by this title more accessible and understandable by:
(1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;
(2) employing a format and numbering system designed to
facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future
expansion of the law;
(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional, expired,
executed, and other ineffective provisions; and
(4) restating the law in modern American English to the greatest
extent possible.
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1985.
Art. 101.002. CONSTRUCTION OF TITLE. The Code Construction Act
(Article 5429b-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) applies to the
construction of each provision in this title, except as otherwise
expressly provided by this title.
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1985.
Art. 101.003. INTERNAL REFERENCES. In this title:
(1) a reference to a chapter or article without further
identification is a reference to a chapter or article of this
title; and
(2) a reference to a subchapter, article, subsection,
subdivision, paragraph, or other numbered or lettered unit
without further identification is a reference to a unit of the
next larger unit of this title in which the reference appears.
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1985.