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Texas Parks and Wildlife Code - Section 31.108. Boater Education Program

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§ 31.108. BOATER EDUCATION PROGRAM.  (a) The commission 
shall adopt rules to:
		(1)  administer a boater education program that is 
designed to educate persons about the safe operation of vessels;
		(2)  approve boater education courses that meet or 
exceed the minimum instruction requirement, as the requirement 
exists on January 1, 1997, established by the National Association 
of State Boating Law Administrators;
		(3)  create an equivalency examination that may be 
taken, as the commission determines is consistent with promoting 
public safety in the operation of vessels, instead of the boater 
education course;  and
		(4)  ensure that boater education courses and 
examinations are available in each county.
	(b)  The commission by rule may create exemptions from boater 
education requirements imposed by statute to the extent the 
exemptions are consistent with promoting public safety in the 
operation of vessels.
	(c)  The commission by rule shall create a standard form for 
a boater identification card to be issued to a person who 
successfully completes a boater education course or course 
equivalency examination.
	(d)  The department may appoint agents to:                                     
		(1)  administer a boater education course or course 
equivalency examination;  and
		(2)  issue boater identification cards under 
guidelines established by the commission.
	(e)  An officer or employee of the department shall collect a 
$5 examination or course fee and forward the fee and any examination 
documentation to the department not later than the 30th day after 
the date the examination or course is administered.
	(f)  An agent acting under authority of Subsection (d):                        
		(1)  shall collect a $10 examination or course fee and 
forward the fee and any examination documentation to the department 
not later than the 30th day after the date the examination or course 
is administered;  and
		(2)  may collect and keep a $3 service fee.                                   

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1363, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.          

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