{"topic_id":"assistance_animal_law_tx_penal_42_091","category":"assistance-animal-law","context":"---\ntopic_id: assistance_animal_law_tx_penal_42_091\ncategory: assistance-animal-law\ntitle: \"Texas — attack on assistance animal (Penal Code § 42.091)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Texas Statutes — Penal Code § 42.091 (Attack on Assistance Animal), statutes.capitol.texas.gov, extracted 2026-07-23 via Tokyo relay (Playwright)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/assistance-animal-law/tx_penal_code_42.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-23\ntokens_estimated: 300\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 3\n  passed: 3\n  date: 2026-07-23\nrecovered: false\npath: assistance-animal-law/assistance_animal_law_tx_penal_42_091/01_assistance_animal_law_tx_penal_42_091.md\n---\n\n# Texas — attack on assistance animal (Penal Code § 42.091)\n\nSource: Texas Statutes — Penal Code § 42.091 (Attack on Assistance Animal), statutes.capitol.texas.gov, extracted 2026-07-23. First-hand Texas statute text; C1 substring-verified against `pdf-raw/assistance-animal-law/tx_penal_code_42.txt`. This is the **state criminal protection for assistance animals** (the LAW), relevant to the assistance-animal / ESA legal-status direction. It is a criminal penalty (not the housing/airline accommodation framework, which is governed separately by federal ADA/ACAA and Texas Human Resources Code provisions).\n\nTexas Penal Code § 42.091 makes it an offense to harm an assistance animal. The core prohibition (Sec. 42.091(a)): \"A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly attacks, injures, or kills an assistance animal.\" Subsection (b) extends this to inciting or permitting an animal the person owns or controls to attack, injure, or kill an assistance animal. This complements the general cruelty offense in § 42.092 and the dangerous-dog framework in Health & Safety Code Chapter 822.\n\nVerbatim C1 claims (each a substring of the source file + this body):\n1. \"Sec. 42.091. ATTACK ON ASSISTANCE ANIMAL.\"\n2. \"A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly attacks, injures, or kills an assistance animal.\"\n3. \"A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly incites or permits an animal owned by\"\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":300,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}