Tex. Transp. Code § 728.022 · Subchapter C. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY VEHICLES
SALE OR TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public unless the person first removes any equipment or insignia that could mislead a reasonable person to believe that the vehicle is a law enforcement motor vehicle, including any police light, siren, amber warning light, spotlight, grill light, antenna, emblem, outline of an emblem, or emergency vehicle equipment.
(b) A person may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to a security services contractor who is regulated by the Department of Public Safety and licensed under Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, unless each emblem or insignia that identifies the vehicle as a law enforcement motor vehicle is removed before the sale or transfer.
(c) A person who sells or transfers a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public in violation of this section is liable:
(1) for damages proximately caused by the use of that vehicle during the commission of a crime; and
(2) to this state for a civil penalty of $1,000.
(d) The attorney general may bring an action to recover the civil penalty imposed under Subsection (c)(2).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1068 (H.B. 3223), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.728.htm
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