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TITLE 37	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 4	COMMERCIAL VEHICLE REGULATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
SUBCHAPTER B	REGULATIONS GOVERNING TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
RULE §4.13	Authority to Enforce, Training and Certificate Requirements
ISSUE	11/17/2017
ACTION	Proposed

Preamble

Texas Admin Code Rule

(a)Authority to Enforce.

(1) - (3)(No change.)

(4)Municipal police officers from any of the Texas cities meeting the training and certification requirements contained in subsection (b) of this section and certified by the department may stop, enter or detain on a highway or at a port of entry within the municipality a motor vehicle subject to Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 644:

(A) - (H)(No change.)

(I)a municipality located in a county with a population between 60,000 and 66,000 adjacent to a bay connected to the Gulf of Mexico; [or]

(J)a municipality with a population of more than 40,000 and less than 50,000 that is located in a county with a population of more than 285,000 and less than 300,000 that borders the Gulf of Mexico;[.]

(K)a municipality with a population between 18,000 and 18,500 that is located entirely in a county that:

(i)has a population of less than 200,000;

(ii)is adjacent to two counties that each have a population of more than 1.2 million; and

(iii)contains two highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways.

(L)a municipality with a population of more than 3,000 and less than 10,000 that:

(i)contains a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways; and

(ii)is located in a county with a population between 150,000 and 155,000.

(5) - (6)(No change.)

(b) - (c)(No change.)

The agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed the proposal and found it to be within the state agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on October 31, 2017

TRD-201704407

D. Phillip Adkins

General Counsel

Texas Department of Public Safety

Earliest possible date of adoption: December 17, 2017

For further information, please call: (512) 424-5848

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