Texas Education Code 51.243 – Required Hearing Procedures
Terms Used In Texas Education Code 51.243
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- 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
A person from whom consent to remain on the campus of a state-supported institution of higher education has been withdrawn in accordance with § 51.233 is entitled, in addition to the procedures set out in § 51.234, to the following:
(1) to be represented by counsel;
(2) to the right to call and examine witnesses and to cross-examine adverse witnesses;
(3) to have all matters upon which the decision may be based introduced into evidence at the hearing in his presence;
(4) to have the decision based solely on the evidence presented at the hearing;
(5) to prohibit the introduction of statements made against him unless he has been advised of their content and the names of the persons who made them, and has been given the opportunity to rebut unfavorable inferences that might otherwise be drawn; and
(6) to have all findings made at the hearing be final, subject only to his right to appeal to the president and the governing board of the institution.