Text of Texas Penal Code Sec. 38.113.

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This text is from the 1999 Texas Penal Code.
For a more current version of this provision
see the FastLaws Texas Penal Code

Statutory Text On and After 9/1/95:

Sec. 38.113. UNAUTHORIZED ABSENCE FROM COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY, County Correctional Center, or Assignment Site. (a) A person commits an offense if the person:

(1) is sentenced to or is required as a condition of community supervision or correctional programming to submit to a period of detention or treatment in a community corrections facility or county correctional center;

(2) fails to report to or leaves the facility, the center, or a community service assignment site as directed by the court, community supervision and corrections department supervising the person, or director of the facility or center in which the person is detained or treated, as appropriate; and

(3) in failing to report or leaving acts without the approval of the court, the community supervision and corrections department supervising the person, or the director of the facility or center in which the person is detained or treated.

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

Statutory Text Before 9/1/95:

Sec. 38.113. [added 9/1/94] UNAUTHORIZED ABSENCE FROM COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY. (a) A person commits an offense if the person is required as a condition of probation to submit to a period of detention or treatment in a community corrections facility and the person fails to report to or leaves the facility without the approval of the court, the community supervision and corrections department supervising the person, or the director of the facility-

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

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