Tex. Educ. Code § 110.16 · Subchapter A. TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
SECURITY POWERS RELATIVE TO HOSPITAL DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus security personnel commissioned as peace officers under Section 51.203 of this code have concurrent jurisdiction with commissioned peace officers of the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, to enforce criminal laws of this state and city ordinances of the City of Lubbock on property of the Lubbock County Hospital District, including Lubbock General Hospital, that is adjacent to property owned or controlled and occupied by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
(b) The Lubbock County Hospital District shall compensate campus security personnel for the security and law enforcement services they provide to the hospital district in the amount agreed on by the Lubbock County Hospital District's Board of Managers and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Board of Regents.
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not:
(1) limit the police powers or enforcement jurisdiction of the City of Lubbock or Lubbock County;
(2) render campus security personnel of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center employees of the Lubbock County Hospital District, or the City of Lubbock, or Lubbock County; or
(3) restrict the power or control of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Board of Regents over campus security personnel.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3861, ch. 609, Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 1983. Renumbered from Education Code Sec. 110.13 by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 5.01(a)(24) eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 65 (S.B. 120), Sec. 2, eff. May 18, 2013.
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