Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 11.251
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 11.251, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 11.251. MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT REVIEW SYSTEM.
Official statutory text
(a) In this section:
(1) "Maintenance equipment" means personal property owned by the department that is used to administer, operate, preserve, repair, expand, or otherwise maintain real property, including improvements and fixtures, owned or operated by the department.
(2) "Outdated equipment" means equipment:
(A) that has a fair market value that is less than the annual cost of maintaining the equipment in working order;
(B) that is not operational and cannot reasonably be made operational; or
(C) that no longer serves a department purpose.
(b) The commission by rule shall establish an equipment review system through which the department annually determines whether any of the department's maintenance equipment has become outdated equipment since the last date the department conducted an equipment review under this section.
(c) The equipment review system established under Subsection (b) must require the department to sell any outdated equipment in the manner and at the time specified by the commission by rule.
(d) The department shall deposit proceeds from the sale of equipment under this section to the credit of the appropriate parks and wildlife account.
(1) "Maintenance equipment" means personal property owned by the department that is used to administer, operate, preserve, repair, expand, or otherwise maintain real property, including improvements and fixtures, owned or operated by the department.
(2) "Outdated equipment" means equipment:
(A) that has a fair market value that is less than the annual cost of maintaining the equipment in working order;
(B) that is not operational and cannot reasonably be made operational; or
(C) that no longer serves a department purpose.
(b) The commission by rule shall establish an equipment review system through which the department annually determines whether any of the department's maintenance equipment has become outdated equipment since the last date the department conducted an equipment review under this section.
(c) The equipment review system established under Subsection (b) must require the department to sell any outdated equipment in the manner and at the time specified by the commission by rule.
(d) The department shall deposit proceeds from the sale of equipment under this section to the credit of the appropriate parks and wildlife account.
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