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

Tex. Transportation Code § 453.060: PROHIBITION OF CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE.

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  1. TRANSPORTATION CODE
  2. TITLE 6. ROADWAYS
  3. SUBTITLE K. MASS TRANSPORTATION
  4. CHAPTER 453. MUNICIPAL TRANSIT DEPARTMENTS
  5. SUBCHAPTER B. CREATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF TRANSIT DEPARTMENT

(a) A board by resolution may prohibit the consumption of an alcoholic beverage on property a transit department possesses or controls. The resolution must describe with particularity each place where consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited.

(b) The transit department shall post a sign in each place where consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited under this section. The sign must indicate that a person may not consume an alcoholic beverage in that place.

(c) A person commits an offense if the person consumes an alcoholic beverage in a place where the consumption of an alcoholic beverage is prohibited under this section.

(d) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(e) In this section, "alcoholic beverage" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 30.32(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:44Z. Source file · JSON

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