Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 272.006 · Chapter 272. SALE OR LEASE OF PROPERTY BY MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND CERTAIN OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
SALE OR TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "political subdivision" means a county, municipality, school district, junior college district, other special district, or other subdivision of state government.
(b) A political subdivision may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public unless the political subdivision first removes any equipment or insignia that could mislead a reasonable person to believe that the vehicle is a law enforcement motor vehicle, including any police light, siren, amber warning light, spotlight, grill light, antenna, emblem, outline of an emblem, or emergency vehicle equipment.
(c) A political subdivision may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other political subdivision law enforcement motor vehicle to a security services contractor who is regulated by the Department of Public Safety and licensed under Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, unless each emblem or insignia that identifies the vehicle as a law enforcement motor vehicle is removed before the sale or transfer.
(d) A political subdivision that sells or transfers a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public in violation of this section is liable:
(1) for damages proximately caused by the use of that vehicle during the commission of a crime; and
(2) to this state for a civil penalty of $1,000.
(e) The attorney general may bring an action to recover the civil penalty imposed under Subsection (d)(2).
(f) Governmental immunity to suit and from liability is waived and abolished to the extent of liability created by Subsection (d).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 274 (H.B. 473), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2015.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1068 (H.B. 3223), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.272.htm
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