Texas Transportation Code

§ 453.060 — PROHIBITION OF CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

TN § 453.060Title 6. ROADWAYS · Part K. MASS TRANSPORTATION · Ch. 453. MUNICIPAL TRANSIT DEPARTMENTS · Art. B. CREATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF TRANSIT DEPARTMENT

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(a)A board by resolution may prohibit the consumption of an alcoholic beverage on property a transit department possesses or controls. The resolution must describe with particularity each place where consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited.

(b)The transit department shall post a sign in each place where consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited under this section. The sign must indicate that a person may not consume an alcoholic beverage in that place.

(c)A person commits an offense if the person consumes an alcoholic beverage in a place where the consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited under this section.

(d)An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(e)In this section, "alcoholic beverage" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.32(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.