Tex. Ins. Code § 701.104 · Subchapter C. INVESTIGATIONS
DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioner may:
(1) employ investigators as necessary to enforce this chapter; and
(2) commission those investigators as peace officers.
(b) If the commissioner commissions investigators as peace officers, the commissioner shall appoint a chief investigator who:
(1) is commissioned as a peace officer; and
(2) is qualified by training and experience in law enforcement to supervise, direct, and administer the activities of the commissioned investigators.
(c) An investigator employed by the department as a peace officer must meet the requirements for a peace officer under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code.
(d) The commissioner shall ensure that a peace officer commissioned under Subsection (a) is compensated according to Schedule C of the position classification salary schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1143 (H.B. 2816), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.701.htm
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