Tex. Occ. Code § 1702.3875 · Subchapter P. PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS
IMPERSONATING SECURITY OFFICER; OFFENSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) impersonates a commissioned or noncommissioned security officer with the intent to induce another to submit to the person's pretended authority or to rely on the person's pretended acts of a security officer; or
(2) knowingly purports to exercise any function that requires licensure as a noncommissioned security officer or a security officer commission.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 595 (S.B. 616), Sec. 5.111, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1702.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 6591831ea1166005775b0e17df8258c84f9757f7f2bb0a07e3eeb0daae9b769b
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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