Tex. Gov't Code § 497.082
Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
An employee of the institutional division may not use the inmate as a trusty unless the division appoints the inmate to serve as a trusty. However, in the case of an extreme emergency, as determined by a farm manager, the farm manager may fill a vacancy in a position formerly held by a trusty by appointing an inmate to serve in that position for not more than 10 days.
Tex. Gov't. Code § 497.082