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About the Partnership

The University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) and the Office of the Texas Secretary of State - Texas Register, in a partnership arrangement, established this site to insure permanent storage and public access to the non-current electronic files of the Texas state government publication, the Texas Register. The most current issue of the Texas Register is first posted on the Texas Register Web site, where they maintain access to the most current six (6) months' issues of the Texas Register . The University of North Texas Libraries provides free access to all issues of the Texas Register  beginning with Volume 16, no. 44 (June 14, 1991) up to within a week of the most currently released issue.

Discussions concerning access to the back electronic issues of the Texas Register were initiated between UNT and the Texas Register Office in the summer of 1999, and in the spring of 2000, a memorandum of understanding was signed outlining the responsibilities of each partner. The transfer of more than twenty-four thousand compressed files, (4753 text and 19, 549 html files together with 297 pdf files), began in the summer of 2000, and UNTL then launched the process of uncompressing, organizing, and verifying all files. Several enhancements support access to the files, including the installation of a search engine, search tips page, information about the content of the Texas Register, and access to specific issues from browse pages. 

Your comments, suggestions, and questions about this site are welcomed.

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Content of the Texas Register

The files will be named in accordance with the date of the issue and the section of the Register. The date of the issue will be the first four digits in each file name. The original file name is named in accordance with the date of the issue. For example, '0405con', stands for table of contents’ file of April 05 issue. Examples of the list of available files (sections) with their abbreviated form follow:

• Table of Contents: Example: 0405con.

• TAC Titles Affected: Example: 0405tac.

• Governor’s Section: Example: 0405gov.

• Attorney General Section: Example: 0405ag.

• Ethics Commission Section: Example: 0405ethc.

• Secretary of State Section: Example: 0405sos.

• Department of Insurance: Example: 0405ifi.

• Review of Agency rules: Example: 0405rev.

• Emergency Section: Example: 0405emer.

• Proposed Section: Example: 0405prop.

• Withdrawn Section: Example: 0405with.

• Adopted Section: Example: 0405adop.

• Open Meetings Section: Example: 0405om.

• In Addition Section: Example: 0405ia.

These files will followed by three digits extension name after the dot (“.”), that indicate the file type so that appropriate software packages will convert the files when retrieving and format accordingly. See also Access Information below.

The following is a sample information from the Texas Register Web site, with abbreviations and acronyms, which are common to all file types.

04/05/1996
V.21, No. 25
PP. [2855]-3088

In the above example:

• 04/05/1996: stands to indicate the date of the issue of the section of the Register. It marked on month, date and year (mm/dd/yyyy) order. 
  
• V.21, No. 25: here, V. stands for Volume, for example, 'V.21' means ‘Volume-21.’ And No., stands for issue number, for instance, 'No.25' means ‘Issue number 25.’
  
• PP. [2855]-3088: similarly, PP. stands for Page
  Numbers 'from page # to page #', and the closed
  bracket ([ ]) indicates the information has
  taken from some other sources. In this specific
  example, 'PP. [2855]-3088' means 'from page 2855
  to 3088', but the initial page (p. 2855) is not available
  in the original document and was supplied from other sources.  

See also Texas Register Form and Style Manual

Texas Secretary of State

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