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Office of the flttornep general
state of flexas
DAN MORALES
ATTORNEY GENERAL March 16, 1998
Mr. Steve Robinson Letter Opinion No. 98-018
Executive Director
Texas Youth Commission Re: Whether Government Code section 497.010, which
P.O. Box 4260 criminalizes the sale of inmate-made products on the
Austin, Texas 78765 open market, applies to the Texas Youth Commission
(RQ-1009)
Dear Mr. Robinson:
You ask whether section 497.010 of the Government Code, which criminalizes the sale of
inmate-made products on the open market, applies to products manufactured by youth in Texas
Youth Commission ("TYC") institutions. If yes, you ask whether "manufactured" products include
youth vocational shop projects. We conclude that although section 497.010 applies to products
manufactured by TYC youth, the statute does not apply to vocational shop projects as you have
described them.
Current section 497.010, enacted by the Seventy-fifth Legislature in 1997 as part of House
Bill 2324, consolidates two repealed laws on the same subject. House Bill 2324 struck section
497.035 of the Government Code, which read in part:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally sells or offers
to sell on the open market in this state an article or product the person knows
was manufactured in whole or in part by an inmate of the institutional
division or an inmate in a correctional facility in any other state, other than
an inmate:
(1) who was on community supervision, parole, or mandatory
supervision;
(2) employed by an enterprise who has employed the inmate to
advantage themselves of the Franchise Tax Credit offered under
Subchapter L, Chapter 171, Tax Code, at the time of the manufacture; or
(3) participating in a federally certified prison industry enhancement
program.
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