Bill Text: TX HB1553 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the definition of amusement ride for purposes of amusement ride regulation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1553-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of amusement ride for purposes of amusement ride regulation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1553-Introduced.html
88R2285 ADM-F | ||
By: Ashby | H.B. No. 1553 |
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relating to the definition of amusement ride for purposes of | ||
amusement ride regulation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2151.002(1), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Amusement ride" means a mechanical device that | ||
carries passengers along, around, or over a fixed or restricted | ||
course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving the | ||
passengers amusement, pleasure, or excitement. The term does not | ||
include: | ||
(A) a coin-operated ride that: | ||
(i) is manually, mechanically, or | ||
electrically operated; | ||
(ii) is customarily placed in a public | ||
location; and | ||
(iii) does not normally require the | ||
supervision or services of an operator; | ||
(B) nonmechanized playground equipment, | ||
including a swing, seesaw, stationary spring-mounted animal | ||
feature, rider-propelled merry-go-round, climber, playground | ||
slide, trampoline, and physical fitness device; [ |
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(C) a challenge course or any part of a challenge | ||
course that is excepted from this chapter under Section 2151.107; | ||
or | ||
(D) a waterslide, even if operated by a | ||
mechanical device, in which passengers are carried along a course | ||
that: | ||
(i) is less than 200 feet in length; | ||
(ii) is substantially constructed from | ||
vinyl or vinyl coated polyester; and | ||
(iii) is not mechanically inflated using a | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |