Section 728.022 - Sale or Transfer of Law Enforcement Vehicle(a) A person may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public unless the person first removes any equipment or insignia that could mislead a reasonable person to believe that the vehicle is a law enforcement motor vehicle, including any police light, siren, amber warning light, spotlight, grill light, antenna, emblem, outline of an emblem, or emergency vehicle equipment.(b) A person may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to a security services contractor who is regulated by the Department of Public Safety and licensed under Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, unless each emblem or insignia that identifies the vehicle as a law enforcement motor vehicle is removed before the sale or transfer.(c) A person who sells or transfers a marked patrol car or other law enforcement motor vehicle to the public in violation of this section is liable:(1) for damages proximately caused by the use of that vehicle during the commission of a crime; and(2) to this state for a civil penalty of $1,000.(d) The attorney general may bring an action to recover the civil penalty imposed under Subsection (c)(2).Tex. Transp. Code § 728.022
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1068 (H.B. 3223), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.