Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 11.356 · Subchapter M. PRESCRIBED BURNS
LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department is liable for actual damages for:
(1) injury to or destruction of property, bodily injury, or death proximately caused by the wrongful act or omission or the negligence of an employee acting within the scope of employment if:
(A) the injury to or destruction of property, bodily injury, or death arises from the escape of fire from a prescribed burn conducted by the department; and
(B) the employee would be personally liable to the claimant according to Texas law;
(2) injury to or destruction of property, bodily injury, or death so caused by the escape of fire from a prescribed burn conducted by the department if the department would, were it a private person, be liable to the claimant according to Texas law; and
(3) injury to or destruction of utility infrastructure caused by a prescribed burn.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 345 (H.B. 801), Sec. 1, eff. June 9, 2015.
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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- 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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