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Amend HB 1092 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
SECTION __. Chapter 30, Penal Code, is amended by adding
Section 30.07 to read as follows:
Sec. 30.07. TRESPASS ON DOCKING PLACE. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Docking place" includes a pier, wharf, dock,
slip, slipway, or any other man-made landing area for ships, boats,
or other watercraft.
(2) "Enter" means to intrude:
(A) any part of the body; or
(B) any physical object connected with the body.
(3) "Notice" means:
(A) oral or written communication by the owner or
someone with apparent authority to act for the owner;
(B) fencing or other enclosure obviously
designed to exclude intruders from the docking place; or
(C) a sign or signs posted on a docking place or
at the entrance to a docking place, reasonably likely to come to the
attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) enters the docking place of another without the
effective consent of the owner or lessee of the docking place; and
(2) after receiving notice that entry is forbidden,
remains in, on, or attached to the docking place.
(c) A person commits an offense if the person, after
receiving notice that entering a docking place is forbidden,
anchors, ties up, moors, or otherwise makes stationary the actor's
ship, boat, or other watercraft at a place or in a manner that
eliminates another's ingress or egress from the docking place.
(d) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
(e) The defense provided by Section 30.05(c) applies to an
offense under this section.