Section 423.004 - Offense: Possession, Disclosure, Display, Distribution, or Use of Image(a) A person commits an offense if the person:(1) captures an image in violation of Section 423.003; and(2) possesses, discloses, displays, distributes, or otherwise uses that image.(b) An offense under this section for the possession of an image is a Class C misdemeanor. An offense under this section for the disclosure, display, distribution, or other use of an image is a Class B misdemeanor.(c) Each image a person possesses, discloses, displays, distributes, or otherwise uses in violation of this section is a separate offense.(d) It is a defense to prosecution under this section for the possession of an image that the person destroyed the image as soon as the person had knowledge that the image was captured in violation of Section 423.003.(e) It is a defense to prosecution under this section for the disclosure, display, distribution, or other use of an image that the person stopped disclosing, displaying, distributing, or otherwise using the image as soon as the person had knowledge that the image was captured in violation of Section 423.003.Tex. Gov't. Code § 423.004
Added by Acts 2013, Texas Acts of the 83rd Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1390,Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/2013.