Texas Parks and Wildlife Code - Section 11.028. Volunteer Services

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§ 11.028. VOLUNTEER SERVICES.  (a) The department may use 
the services of volunteers to help carry out the duties and 
responsibilities of the department, provided, however, that 
volunteers shall not be used to enforce provisions of this code or 
to carry out department duties and responsibilities on private 
property unless the landowner has consented to the activity.
	(b)  The department may accept funds raised by a volunteer or 
volunteer group to promote the work of the department and to help 
carry out its duties and responsibilities.  The department may use 
the funds for the specific project or purpose for which the funds 
are intended.
	(c)  The director may waive park entrance fees and facility 
use fees for a volunteer to assist in the accomplishment of the 
volunteer's service to the department.
	(d)  The executive director may expend funds appropriated to 
the department from dedicated funding sources for:
		(1)  the establishment of an insurance program to 
protect volunteers in the performance of volunteer service;
		(2)  recognition of the services of a volunteer or 
volunteer groups.        
	(e)  The commission shall authorize the administrator of a 
state park to provide passes to the state park to members of 
nonprofit youth groups who volunteer to help carry out the duties 
and responsibilities of the department at the park.  For purposes of 
this subsection, "nonprofit youth group" means a nonprofit 
organization that:
		(1)  is chartered as a national or statewide 
organization;                  
		(2)  is organized and operated exclusively for youth 
recreational or educational purposes and that includes, as part of 
the group's program, components relating to:
			(A)  character development;                                                  
			(B)  citizenship training;                                                   
			(C)  physical and mental fitness;  and                                       
			(D)  prevention of drug abuse;                                               
		(3)  has been in existence for at least 10 years;  and                        
		(4)  has a membership of which at least 65 percent are 
younger than 22 years of age.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 910, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.  
Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 257, § 1, eff. May 28, 1999.

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