Bill Text: TX HB80 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on certain private security companies' use of vehicles that mimic law enforcement vehicles.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-14 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB80-Introduced.html
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| By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 80 | |
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| relating to restrictions on certain private security companies' 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) This section applies only to a motor vehicle that displays the | ||
| name of a company and is used by: | ||
| (1) a guard company for the purpose of security patrol | ||
| services; or | ||
| (2) an alarm systems company while responding to an | ||
| alarm system or detection device. | ||
| (b) A motor vehicle described by Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) must display an inscription containing: | ||
| (A) the license holder's company name or the name | ||
| under which the company conducts business; | ||
| (B) the words "Private Patrol Services," | ||
| "Security," "Alarm Response," "Security Patrol," or "Protection," | ||
| in letters not less than two inches high; and | ||
| (C) the company's license number, in letters not | ||
| less than one inch high; and | ||
| (2) may not display a badge or shield emblem, 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. | ||
| (c) The inscription required by Subsection (b)(1)(B) must | ||
| be in a color sufficiently different from the body of the motor | ||
| vehicle that the lettering is plainly legible at a distance of not | ||
| less than 100 feet. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect October 1, 2011. | ||
