{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-544.0055","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 544.0055","heading":"TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL PREEMPTION DEVICE; OFFENSE.","body":"(a) In this section, \"traffic-control signal preemption device\" means a device designed, intended, or used to interfere with or alter the operation of a traffic-control signal.\n(b) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a person commits an offense if the person uses, sells, offers for sale, purchases, or possesses for use or sale a traffic-control signal preemption device.\n(c) The possession of a traffic-control signal preemption device creates the presumption that the person possessed the device for use or sale.\n(d) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.\n(e) This section does not apply to:\n(1) a person who provides fire-fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services in the course of providing those services;\n(2) a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer of traffic-control signal preemption devices in the course of manufacturing, selling, providing, or transporting a traffic-control signal preemption device to a person described by Subdivision (1); or\n(3) a transit vehicle operated by an authority under Chapter 451 or 452 or a transit department under Chapter 453.\nAdded by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 244 (H.B. 364), Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 2005.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC","SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD","CHAPTER 544. TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, AND MARKINGS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.544.htm#544.0055","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"706a6884be61d480d730e3b6eb4dcec1b5a49155a2d18c70646d8f36d9b00eb3","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-544.005","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-544.006"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}