Sec. 405.015.  RECEIVING OFFICER.  When an officer receives a copy of a report, statute, digest, or journal, the officer shall give a receipt to the distributing officer, who shall file the receipt in his office.  This material is the property of the receiving officer's office and is open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.  An officer who does not deliver the material to the successor to the office is liable to the successor for the cost of replacing the material.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.