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Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 101.055

CERTAIN GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS

Known as the Texas Tort Claims Act

The act spans §§ 101–101 (41 sections).

Applied in 53 court decisions — leading case Wells v. City of Lynchburg (1998)

Most recently applied in Tex. S. Univ. v. Mouton (January 2018)

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

This chapter does not apply to a claim arising:

(1) in connection with the assessment or collection of taxes by a governmental unit;

(2) from the action of an employee while responding to an emergency call or reacting to an emergency situation if the action is in compliance with the laws and ordinances applicable to emergency action, or in the absence of such a law or ordinance, if the action is not taken with conscious indifference or reckless disregard for the safety of others; or

(3) from the failure to provide or the method of providing police or fire protection.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.