Bill Text: TX HB1178 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipal judicial and law enforcement authority on a segment of a highway or street that abuts property located in a municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1178 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1178-Introduced.html
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By: Gooden | H.B. No. 1178 |
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relating to municipal judicial and law enforcement authority on a | ||
segment of a highway or street that abuts property located in a | ||
municipality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 4.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) For the purposes of Subsection (b), the territorial | ||
limits of a municipality include: | ||
(1) the entire width of a segment of highway or street, | ||
as defined by Section 541.302, Transportation Code, that is | ||
partially located in the municipality; or | ||
(2) a segment of highway or street, as defined by | ||
Section 541.302, Transportation Code, that abuts property located | ||
in the municipality. | ||
SECTION 2. Article 14.03(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows: | ||
(4) For purposes of Subdivision (2), the jurisdiction | ||
of a peace officer employed by a municipality includes the area | ||
included in the territorial limits of the municipality under | ||
Article 4.14(b-1). | ||
SECTION 3. Article 45.019(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) A complaint filed in municipal court must allege that | ||
the offense was committed in the territorial limits of the | ||
municipality, which include the area described by Article | ||
4.14(b-1), in which the complaint is made. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 29.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) For the purposes of Subsection (b), the territorial | ||
limits of a municipality include the area described by Article | ||
4.14(b-1), Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by Article 4.14(b-1), | ||
Code of Criminal Procedure, and Section 29.003(b-1), Government | ||
Code, as added by this Act, and Article 45.019(c), Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, as amended by this Act, apply only to an offense | ||
committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense | ||
committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this | ||
section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |