The director may receive, analyze, store, and destroy a record, profile, or sample for the following purposes:
  (1) to assist a federal, state, or local criminal justice agency in the investigation or prosecution of sex-related offenses or other offenses in which biological evidence is recovered;
  (2) in criminal cases, for use in the investigation of an offense, the exclusion or identification of suspects or offenders, and the prosecution or defense of the case;
  (3) to assist in the recovery or identification of human remains from a disaster or for humanitarian purposes;
  (4) to assist in the identification of living or deceased missing persons;
  (5) if personal identifying information is removed:
    (A) to establish a population statistics database; and
    (B) to assist in identification research, forensic validation studies, or forensic protocol development;
  (6) retesting to validate or update the original analysis or to assist in database or DNA laboratory quality control.

Source Note: The provisions of this §28.22 adopted to be effective February 7, 2005, 30 TexReg 407; amended to be effective April 30, 2007, 32 TexReg 2371