Texas Education Code § 107.81 Concurrent Jurisdiction With City Police

Sec. 107.81. CONCURRENT JURISDICTION WITH CITY POLICE. (a) Campus security personnel commissioned under Section 51.203 of this code have concurrent jurisdiction with police officers of the City of Denton to enforce all criminal laws, including traffic laws, of the state and all ordinances of the city regulating traffic on any public street running through the property of the university and on any public street immediately adjacent to property owned or occupied and controlled by the university.

(b) The form and content of traffic citations issued for violations of law shall be similar to the type used by the State Highway Patrol and shall be filed in the municipal court or any justice of the peace court with jurisdiction of the offense.

Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 892, ch. 317, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 31, 1981.

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