Texas Administrative Code › Title 37 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 8 - CAPITOL COMPLEX › Subchapter A - PROTECTION OF STATE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS › Section 8.4 - Access to State Buildings

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Public access.
				  Public access to state buildings is generally unlimited. However, nothing in
				  this chapter shall be understood as permitting the use of any public building,
				  in any manner whatsoever, when such use is for a commercial purpose.
(b) Admission to state buildings. The public
				  portions of state buildings are generally open to the public at all times, with
				  the general exception of Saturdays, Sundays, state holidays, and from 6 p.m. to
				  7 a.m. on working days. Access to state buildings during the times they are not
				  open to the public shall be by building pass card, electronic security access
				  card, special permission, or emergency admission.
(1) Building pass cards and electronic
				  security access cards. The chief executive of each agency, in the state
				  building referenced in this subsection, shall be responsible for the control of
				  building pass cards and electronic security access cards issued for their
				  agency. The chief executive may delegate this responsibility to another
				  person(s) in the agency, provided that the Capitol Regional Command Office is
				  notified in writing of the name(s) with a sample of designees' signatures.
				  Agency designees may not appoint other agency designees.
(2) Card application. Applications for such
				  cards must be signed by the agency designee and completed by the employee. The
				  employee will submit the application in person; or the agency designee may
				  submit electronically through the designees approved and authorized state email
				  address to the Capitol Regional Command Office for issuance. No card will be
				  issued unless the application is complete and signed by the agency designee or
				  submitted through the approved state email address on file for the designee. An
				  employee may have both a building pass card and an electronic security access
				  card. When this occurs, separate applications will be required. The electronic
				  security access card is not a building pass card and will not be accepted in
				  any other location other than the location for which it was issued.
(3) Agency designee. It is the responsibility
				  of the agency designee to notify the Capitol Regional Command Office
				  immediately of any termination of the employee. The agency designee shall
				  return the employee's cards to the Capitol Regional Command Office.
(4) Special permission. Special permission is
				  communicated by an appropriate public official or his representative to the
				  Capitol Regional Command Office specifically approving one-time admission to a
				  named individual. Such authorization should be in writing.
(5) Emergency admission. Emergency admission
				  is solely within the discretion of the officer on duty, and such officer must
				  accompany the admitted individual at all times while he or she is in the
				  building.
(6) Recovery of costs
				  for access cards. The department may recover the cost of materials and services
				  rendered for the issuance of a new or replacement electronic security access
				  card.