Tex. Gov't Code § 497.083 · Subchapter D. TRUSTIES
RESTRICTIONS ON TRUSTIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A trusty may not be permitted to leave the location where the institutional division has assigned the trusty unless the trusty is on division business.
(b) A trusty may not be at large or off institutional division property after 9 p.m. unless accompanied by a guard or other employee of the division or a member of the board.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a trusty who operates pumps or other necessary machinery at night on an institutional division farm.
(d) Employees of the institutional division who are in charge of trusties shall ensure that trusties required to be inside division buildings not later than 9 p.m. are inside by that time.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Renumbered from Sec. 496.083 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.497.htm
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