Section 12.017 - Damaging Markers(a) No person may damage, deface, destroy, or remove, tie up a boat to, or in any way render inoperative or ineffective a marker, buoy, light or sound signal, radar reflector, or daymark or any part of these devices, including the attachment intended to hold the device in place.(b) The fact that a device or part of a device specified in Subsection (a) of this section may have been established by the state in water adjacent to but outside the territorial water of the state is not a defense against a prosecution for damaging state property.Tex. Parks and Wild. § 12.017
Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/1985.Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1126, ch. 421, Sec. 2, eff. 8/29/1977.