Texas Penal Code
§ 42.08 — ABUSE OF CORPSE
PE § 42.08Title 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY · Ch. 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Statute text
View on source(a)A person commits an offense if the person, without legal authority, knowingly:
(1)disinters, disturbs, damages, dissects, in whole or in part, carries away, or treats in an offensive manner a human corpse;
(2)conceals a human corpse knowing it to be illegally disinterred;
(3)sells or buys a human corpse or in any way traffics in a human corpse;
(4)transmits or conveys, or procures to be transmitted or conveyed, a human corpse to a place outside the state; or
(5)vandalizes, damages, or treats in an offensive manner the space in which a human corpse has been interred or otherwise permanently laid to rest.
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Legislative history
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1025 (H.B. 1012), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005. Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 299 (S.B. 524), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.