Bill Text: TX HB2528 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on private investigators' and security officers' use of vehicles that mimic law enforcement vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB2528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2528-Introduced.html
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| By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 2528 | |
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| relating to restrictions on private investigators' and security | ||
| officers' use of vehicles that mimic law enforcement vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1702.1301 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1702.1301. RESTRICTIONS ON APPEARANCE OF VEHICLES. | ||
| (a) A motor vehicle used by a license holder, or an officer, | ||
| director, partner, manager, or employee of a license holder, in the | ||
| course of activity licensed by this chapter: | ||
| (1) must display an inscription containing: | ||
| (A) the company name of the license holder; and | ||
| (B) the words "Not Affiliated with Law | ||
| Enforcement"; and | ||
| (2) may not display the state seal or another seal or | ||
| any variation on the state seal or another seal that may give an | ||
| impression that the person is connected with the federal | ||
| government, a state government, or a political subdivision of this | ||
| state. | ||
| (b) The inscription required by Subsection (a) must be: | ||
| (1) in a color sufficiently different from the body of | ||
| the motor vehicle so that the lettering is plainly legible at a | ||
| distance of not less than 100 feet; and | ||
| (2) in letters not less than two inches high. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
