1. (a) The retention and preservation schedule for biological evidence may be accessed in Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 38.43(c).
2. (b) Long-term evidence retention should be part of the governmental evidence-retention entity's evidence control policy.
3. (c) A governmental evidence-retention entity must have a system to catalog evidence so it is possible to locate any retained biological evidence.

Source Note:The provisions of this §28.183 adopted to be effective March 13, 2013, 38 TexReg 1702.