INSTALLATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF CALL BOX SYSTEM.
Tex. TRANSP Code § 226.003.
in effect(a) The department may provide for the installment, operation, and maintenance of a system of emergency telephone call boxes along those highways in this state that are part of the designated state highway system.
(b) The system may:
(1) be designed to enable users of those highways to request emergency and nonemergency response services;
(2) include:
(A) wired or wireless telecommunications services; and
(B) one or more motorist assistance answering centers; and
(3) be capable of performing compatible Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) functions.
(c) To minimize call processing loads in public safety answering points established under Chapter 771 or 772 , Health and Safety Code, the department may contract with a private entity to perform the functions of a motorist assistance answering center under Subsection (b)(2)(B).
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1171, Sec. 1.42, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.