Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 11.0192 · Subchapter B. ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT
PURCHASE OF BADGE BY RETIRING PEACE OFFICER OR SURVIVOR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A peace officer commissioned by the director who is honorably retired from his commission by the department may purchase for an amount set by the department, not to exceed fair market value, one badge issued to the officer by the department. The purchase must be made before the second anniversary of the date of the officer's retirement.
(b) If a peace officer commissioned by the director dies while commissioned, whether or not the death occurred in the discharge of the officer's official duties as a peace officer, the following persons, in descending order of precedence, may purchase a badge issued to the officer under the same conditions imposed on a purchase by a retiring officer by Subsection (a) of this section:
(1) the surviving spouse of the officer;
(2) any children of the officer; or
(3) the parents of the officer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 763, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 31, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.11.htm
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