Tex. Prop. Code § 5.020 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EASEMENTS RESTRICTING POSSESSION OF FIREARMS OR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Alcoholic beverage" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code.
(2) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section 46.01, Penal Code. The term includes any firearm parts, firearm accessories, and firearm ammunition.
(b) This section does not apply to a right-of-way easement for a pipeline, electric transmission line, or other utility.
(c) An instrument granting an access easement may not restrict or prohibit an easement holder or an easement holder's guest from possessing, carrying, or transporting a firearm or an alcoholic beverage over the servient estate while using the easement for the easement's purpose.
(d) The owner of a servient estate may not enforce a restrictive covenant in an instrument granting an access easement over the servient estate that restricts or prohibits the easement holder or the easement holder's guest from possessing, carrying, or transporting a firearm or an alcoholic beverage over the servient estate while using the easement for the easement's purpose.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 907 (H.B. 4346), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
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