Texas Government Code 411.351 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Government Code 411.351
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this subchapter:
(1) “Abducted child” means a child 17 years of age or younger whose whereabouts are unknown and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the safety and health of the child, as determined by a local law enforcement agency.
(2) “Alert system” means the statewide America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) alert system for abducted children and missing persons with intellectual disabilities.
(2-a) “Intellectual disability” means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is concurrent with deficits in adaptive behavior and originates during the developmental period. The term includes a pervasive developmental disorder.
(3) “Local law enforcement agency” means a local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the investigation of:
(A) the abduction of a child; or
(B) a missing person with an intellectual disability.
(3-a) “Pervasive developmental disorder” means a disorder that meets the criteria for a pervasive developmental disorder established in the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
(4) “Serious bodily injury” has the meaning assigned by § 1.07, Penal Code.