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TITLE 37PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 3TEXAS HIGHWAY PATROL
SUBCHAPTER ACRASH INVESTIGATIONS
RULE §3.1Responsibility and Reporting
(a) Officers of the department are charged with the responsibility of investigation and properly reporting rural motor vehicle crashes occurring upon public highways without regard as to severity of the crash. Officers of the department will investigate and properly report motor vehicles crashes occurring on other places open to the use of the public only when serious bodily injury or death has occurred.

(b) Officers of the department will, insofar as practicable, make an on-the-scene investigation and properly report rural motor vehicle crashes of which they are made aware.
Source Note: The provisions of this §3.1 adopted to be effective January 1, 1976; amended to be effective December 20, 2007, 32 TexReg 9353; amended to be effective September 15, 2010, 35 TexReg 8382

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