9-1-1 EMERGENCY SERVICE
Known as the Texas Tort Claims Act
The act spans §§ 101–101 (41 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Fernandez v. City of El Paso (1994)
Most recently applied in Residents Against Flooding v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen (May 2017)
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 236, Sec. 2, eff
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.
(a) In this section, "9-1-1 service" and "public agency" have the meanings assigned those terms by Section 771.001, Health and Safety Code.
(b) This chapter applies to a claim against a public agency that arises from an action of an employee of the public agency or a volunteer under direction of the public agency and that involves providing 9-1-1 service or responding to a 9-1-1 emergency call only if the action violates a statute or ordinance applicable to the action.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.