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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 75E.002: LIMITED LIABILITY.

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  1. CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE
  2. TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT
  3. CHAPTER 75E. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR MOTORIZED OFF-ROAD VEHICLE ACTIVITIES

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a motorized off-road vehicle entity is not liable to any person for a motorized off-road vehicle activity participant injury, if, at the time of the motorized off-road vehicle activity participant injury, the warning prescribed by Section 75E.003 was posted in accordance with that section.

(b) This section does not limit liability for an injury:

(1) proximately caused by:

(A) the motorized off-road vehicle entity's:

(i) gross negligence or intentional misconduct with regard to the safety of the motorized off-road vehicle area or the motorized off-road vehicle activity participant; or

(ii) negligence with regard to a motorized off-road vehicle or related equipment provided by the entity to the participant;

(B) a potentially dangerous condition at the motorized off-road vehicle area, other than a potentially dangerous condition inherent to driving a vehicle in a motorized off-road vehicle area, including unstable roads, surfaces, or subsurfaces or natural or man-made obstacles, of which the motorized off-road vehicle entity knew or reasonably should have known; or

(C) the motorized off-road vehicle entity's failure to train or improper training of an employee of the motorized off-road vehicle entity actively involved in the motorized off-road vehicle area or a motorized off-road vehicle activity; or

(2) intentionally caused by the motorized off-road vehicle entity.

(c) The doctrine of attractive nuisance does not apply to a claim made by a person for an injury that occurred in a motorized off-road vehicle area.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1123 (H.B. 5624), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:00Z. Source file · JSON

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