Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 37.002

Current with legislation from the 2019 Regular Session effective as of September 1, 2019

Current with legislation from the 2019 Regular Session effective as of September 1, 2019

Section 37.002 - Short Title, Construction, Interpretation

(a) This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act.

(b) This chapter is remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations; and it is to be liberally construed and administered.

(c) This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it and to harmonize, as far as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments and decrees.

Tex. Civ. Prac. and Rem. Code § 37.002

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.