LEAVING A CHILD IN A VEHICLE
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Millslagle v. State (2002)
Most recently applied in Drewery v. Adventist Health System/Texas, Inc. (June 2011)
Added by Acts 1984, 68th Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 24, Sec. 1, 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) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly leaves a child in a motor vehicle for longer than five minutes, knowing that the child is:
(1) younger than seven years of age; and
(2) not attended by an individual in the vehicle who is 14 years of age or older.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.