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Texas Penal Code § 49.065

Assembling or Operating an Amusement Ride While Intoxicated

Intoxication and Alcoholic Beverage Offenses

(a) A person commits an offense if the person is intoxicated while operating an amusement ride or while assembling a mobile amusement ride.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) and Section 49.09, an offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor with a minimum term of confinement of 72 hours.

(c) If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this section that at the time of the offense the person operating the amusement ride or assembling the mobile amusement ride had an open container of alcohol in the person's immediate possession, the offense is a Class B misdemeanor with a minimum term of confinement of six days.

Official text of the Texas Penal Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1364, Sec. 9, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.

This section refers to

§ 49.09

Sections that refer to this one

Crim. Proc. Art. 16.23Crim. Proc. Art. 18.01Crim. Proc. Art. 18.067Crim. Proc. Art. 42A.102Gov't § 411.073Gov't § 411.0735§ 49.09§ 49.10Transp. § 724.012