Texas · Texas Penal Code
Tex. Penal Code § 20.03: KIDNAPPING
What this law says, in plain English
A person commits a third-degree felony by intentionally or knowingly abducting another person, unless the abduction involved no deadly force threat, the abductor was a relative, and intent was only to assume lawful control.
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