Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 341.906 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
LIMITATIONS ON REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Child safety zone" means premises where children commonly gather. The term includes a school, day-care facility, playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool, video arcade facility, or other facility that regularly holds events primarily for children. The term does not include a church, as defined by Section 544.251, Insurance Code.
(2) "Playground," "premises," "school," "video arcade facility," and "youth center" have the meanings assigned by Section 481.134, Health and Safety Code.
(3) "Registered sex offender" means an individual who is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(b) To provide for the public safety, the governing body of a general-law municipality by ordinance may restrict a registered sex offender from going in, on, or within a specified distance of a child safety zone in the municipality.
(c) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution of an offense under the ordinance that the registered sex offender was in, on, or within a specified distance of a child safety zone for a legitimate purpose, including transportation of a child that the registered sex offender is legally permitted to be with, transportation to and from work, and other work-related purposes.
(d) The ordinance may establish a distance requirement described by Subsection (b) at any distance of not more than 1,000 feet.
(e) The ordinance shall establish procedures for a registered sex offender to apply for an exemption from the ordinance.
(f) The ordinance must exempt a registered sex offender who established residency in a residence located within the specified distance of a child safety zone before the date the ordinance is adopted. The exemption must apply only to:
(1) areas necessary for the registered sex offender to have access to and to live in the residence; and
(2) the period the registered sex offender maintains residency in the residence.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 997 (H.B. 1111), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2017.
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