Health and Safety Code §713.029

(a) A commissioners court may purchase burial grounds to be used exclusively for the burial of honorably discharged persons who: (1) have served in the United States armed forces during a war in which the United States participated; and (2) die without leaving sufficient means to pay funeral expenses. (b) A commissioners court may not purchase burial grounds under this section if there is a national military cemetery or other military plot in the county in which honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces may be buried free of charge.