Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 78.052 — APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER: MARINE FIRE EMERGENCY

CP § 78.052Title 4. LIABILITY IN TORT · Ch. 78. CERTAIN FIRE FIGHTERS AND FIRE-FIGHTING ENTITIES · Art. B. MARINE FIRE-FIGHTING SERVICES

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This subchapter applies only to damages for personal injury, death, or property damage arising from an error or omission of:

(1)a nonprofit fire department providing services to respond to marine fire emergencies under contract to a governmental unit, if the error or omission occurs in responding to a marine fire emergency:

(A)on the navigable waters of this state;

(B)in any place into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway;

(C)on property owned or under the control of the governmental unit; or

(D)at the request of the governmental unit in the interest of public safety; or

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.