Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 351.009 · Subchapter A. COUNTY JAIL FACILITIES
SAFETY VESTIBULE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To provide safety to officers and security, entrance to and exit from a cell block or a group of cells or compartments used to confine three or more prisoners in a county jail must be through a safety vestibule.
(b) A safety vestibule must have one or more interior doors in addition to the main outside entrance door to the cell block or group of cells or compartments. All the interior doors must be designed to be locked, unlocked, opened, and closed by a means located outside the cell block or group of cells or compartments.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.351.htm
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