Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 352.004 · Subchapter A. PROTECTION OF COUNTY RESIDENTS
AGENCY; LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "furnishing fire protection" includes traveling to or from a fire.
(b) The act of a person who, in carrying out a county's authority to provide fire protection, furnishes fire protection to a county resident who lives outside the municipalities in the county, including the act of a person who is a regular employee or fire fighter of a municipality, is considered to be the act of an agent of the county.
(c) A municipality is not liable for the act of its employee in fighting fires outside the municipality under a contract between the commissioners court of the county and the governing body of the municipality.
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.352.htm
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