These rules shall be construed according to the fair import of their meaning so as to further policies and purposes of the Texas Fair Housing Act. The commission does not intend that a failure to comply with these rules by the commission should constitute a jurisdictional or other bar to administrative or legal action unless otherwise required under these rules or the Act. The commission intends that substantive rules shall impose obligations, rights, and remedies, which are the same as provided by federal law and regulations of the federal government.

Source Note:The provisions of this §819.153 adopted to be effective April 13, 1990, 15 TexReg 1842; transferred effective March 1, 2004, as published in the Texas Register April 9, 2004, 29 TexReg 3653.