Texas Transportation Code

§ 600.003 — ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN TRAFFIC LAWS BY PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

TN § 600.003Title 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Part C. RULES OF THE ROAD · Ch. 600. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Statute text

(a)In this section, "private or independent institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003(15), Education Code.

(b)A private or independent institution of higher education may enforce a traffic law of this state under Chapter 545 restricting or prohibiting the operation or movement of vehicles on a road of the institution if:

(1)the road of the institution is open to the public at the time the traffic law is enforced;

(2)the governing body of the institution adopts a regulation to enforce the traffic law; and

(3)the restriction or prohibition on the operation and movement of vehicles adopted by the institution:

(A)is posted by means of a sign, marking, signal, or other device visible to and, if it contains writing, able to be read by an operator of a vehicle to whom the restriction or prohibition applies in the same manner as a similar restriction or prohibition on the operation and movement of vehicles would be posted by a municipality; and

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 620, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.