By: Guillen H.B. No. 4689
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to allowing a commissioner's court to assess a body
storage fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section Article 49.25, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Section 10c to read as follows:
Body Storage Fee
Sec. 10c. The commissioner's court may assess a fee not to
exceed fifty dollars per day when a body is left at the medical
examiner's office more than 24 hours after a release has been
executed, except in an area of the state declared a Disaster Area by
the governor of the State of Texas.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.