Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
GOVERNMENT CODE |
Title 5. OPEN GOVERNMENT; ETHICS |
Subtitle B. ETHICS |
Chapter 571. TEXAS ETHICS COMMISSION |
Subchapter D. ADVISORY OPINIONS |
Sec. 571.097. DEFENSE FOR RELIANCE ON ADVISORY OPINION
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It is a defense to prosecution or to imposition of a civil penalty that the person reasonably relied on a written advisory opinion of the commission relating to the provision of the law the person is alleged to have violated or relating to a fact situation that is substantially similar to the fact situation in which the person is involved.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.