{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-1702.322","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Occupations Code § 1702.322","heading":"LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.","body":"This chapter does not apply to:\n(1) a person who has full-time employment as a peace officer and who receives compensation for private employment on an individual or an independent contractor basis as a patrolman, guard, extra job coordinator, or watchman if the officer:\n(A) is employed in an employee-employer relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis:\n(i) directly by the recipient of the services; or\n(ii) by a company licensed under this chapter;\n(B) is not in the employ of another peace officer;\n(C) is not a reserve peace officer; and\n(D) works as a peace officer on the average of at least 32 hours a week, is compensated by the state or a political subdivision of the state at least at the minimum wage, and is entitled to all employee benefits offered to a peace officer by the state or political subdivision;\n(2) a reserve peace officer while the reserve officer is performing guard, patrolman, or watchman duties for a county and is being compensated solely by that county;\n(3) a peace officer acting in an official capacity in responding to a burglar alarm or detection device; or\n(4) a person engaged in the business of electronic monitoring of an individual as a condition of that individual's community supervision, parole, mandatory supervision, or release on bail, if the person does not perform any other service that requires a license under this chapter.\nActs 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 14.654, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.\nAmended by:\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1146 (H.B. 2730), Sec. 4B.17, eff. September 1, 2009.\nActs 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1247 (S.B. 1600), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.","path":["OCCUPATIONS CODE","TITLE 10. OCCUPATIONS RELATED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY","CHAPTER 1702. PRIVATE SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER N. EXCEPTIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1702.htm#1702.322","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:31Z","sha256":"d0e2600f23b032243211bf2f3e1da6d21d130c85093f229d5699cc7af4264c38","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-1702.321","next":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-1702.323"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}