§ 99.001.Applicability

An applicability provision with one significant clause.

The chapter applies only to a person who manufactures methamphetamine in violation of Section 481.112, Health and Safety Code — without regard to whether the person is convicted of the offense.

No conviction is required, and none is presumed. The civil claim turns on whether the person manufactured the drug in violation of the criminal provision, proved to the civil standard.

That matters practically. Manufacturing operations are frequently discovered after the fact — by a subsequent occupant, a landlord, or a purchaser — and the person responsible may never be identified for prosecution, may have absconded, or may have been prosecuted for something else.

The word "only" confines the chapter to manufacturers. Possession, distribution, and use are outside it, however serious.

The reason is the nature of the harm the chapter addresses. Manufacturing methamphetamine contaminates the building it happens in, exposes anyone present to toxic byproducts, and leaves residue that persists long afterwards — which is a property and exposure harm that distribution does not create.

The same no-conviction structure appears in the trafficking chapter, where acquittal and non-prosecution are expressly not defences.