Texas Administrative Code

Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 31	NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
PART 2	TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 51	EXECUTIVE
SUBCHAPTER F	VEHICLES
RULE §51.151	Vehicle Inscriptions

(a) The commission authorizes the executive director to assign any law enforcement or headquarters staff employee to operate departmental vehicles without inscriptions.

(b) Uninscribed vehicles will be other than those operated for routine patrol duty or which are normally used to conduct ordinary public business of the department.

(c) Uninscribed vehicles will be used primarily to conduct law enforcement investigations and to carry out special assignments made by the executive director when it is advantageous for successful enforcement of the law and to reach goals of the department as established by the legislature and the commission.

(d) The commission authorizes the executive director to approve inscriptions other than those described in Transportation Code, Chapter 721, so long as such inscriptions:

(1) do not obscure any required inscriptions;

(2) have been approved in writing in advance by the department's executive director or designee;

(3) are in the best interest of the department and do not conflict with the department's mission and goals; and

(4) are not more prominent than and do not overshadow the role of the department.

Source Note: The provisions of this §51.151 adopted to be effective October 3, 1996, 21 TexReg 9168; amended to be effective January 2, 2013, 37 TexReg 10221