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Tex. Transp. Code § 601.151

APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER

Known as the Texas Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act

The act spans §§ 601.001 to 601.455 (104 sections).

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff

(a) This subchapter applies only to a motor vehicle collision in this state that results in bodily injury or death or in damage to the property of one person of at least $1,000.

(b) This subchapter does not apply to:

(1) an owner or operator who has in effect at the time of the collision a motor vehicle liability insurance policy that covers the motor vehicle involved in the collision;

(2) an operator who is not the owner of the motor vehicle, if a motor vehicle liability insurance policy or bond for the operation of a motor vehicle the person does not own is in effect at the time of the collision;

(3) an owner or operator whose liability for damages resulting from the collision, in the judgment of the department, is covered by another liability insurance policy or bond;

(4) an owner or operator, if there was not bodily injury to or damage of the property of a person other than the owner or operator;

(5) the owner or operator of a motor vehicle that at the time of the collision was legally parked or legally stopped at a traffic signal;

(6) the owner of a motor vehicle that at the time of the collision was being operated without the owner's express or implied permission or was parked by a person who had been operating the vehicle without that permission; or

(7) a person qualifying as a self-insurer under Section 601.124 or a person operating a motor vehicle for a self-insurer.

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