Section 42A.502 - Community Supervision for Certain Violent Offenses; Child Safety Zone(a) In this article, "playground," "premises," "school," "video arcade facility," and "youth center" have the meanings assigned by Section 481.134, Health and Safety Code.(b) A judge granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an offense listed in Article 42A.054(a) or for which the judgment contains an affirmative finding under Article 42A.054(c) or (d) may establish a child safety zone applicable to the defendant, if the nature of the offense for which the defendant is convicted warrants the establishment of a child safety zone, by requiring as a condition of community supervision that the defendant not: (1) supervise or participate in any program that:(A) includes as participants or recipients persons who are 17 years of age or younger; and(B) regularly provides athletic, civic, or cultural activities; or(2) go in or on, or within a distance specified by the judge of, a premises where children commonly gather, including a school, day-care facility, playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool, or video arcade facility.(c) At any time after the imposition of a condition under Subsection (b), the defendant may request the judge to modify the child safety zone applicable to the defendant because the zone as created by the judge:(1) interferes with the defendant's ability to attend school or hold a job and consequently constitutes an undue hardship for the defendant; or(2) is broader than is necessary to protect the public, given the nature and circumstances of the offense.(d) This article does not apply to a defendant described by Article 42A.453.Tex. Code Crim. Proc. § 42A.502
Added by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 770,Sec. 1.01, eff. 1/1/2017.