Sec. 544.005. INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICE OR RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL. A person may not, without lawful authority, alter, injure, knock down, or remove or attempt to alter, injure, knock down, or remove:
(1) an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal;
(2) an inscription, shield, or insignia on an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal; or
(3) another part of an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 7 - Vehicles and Traffic
Subtitle C - Rules of the Road
Chapter 544 - Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings
Section 544.001. Adoption of Sign Manual for State Highways
Section 544.002. Placing and Maintaining Traffic-Control Device
Section 544.003. Authority to Designate Through Highway and Stop and Yield Intersections
Section 544.004. Compliance With Traffic-Control Device
Section 544.005. Interference With Traffic-Control Device or Railroad Sign or Signal
Section 544.0055. Traffic-Control Signal Preemption Device; Offense
Section 544.006. Display of Unauthorized Signs, Signals, or Markings
Section 544.007. Traffic-Control Signals in General
Section 544.0075. Certain Traffic-Actuated Electric Traffic-Control Signals
Section 544.008. Flashing Signals
Section 544.009. Lane-Direction-Control Signals
Section 544.010. Stop Signs and Yield Signs