Sec. 12.017.  DAMAGING MARKERS.  (a)  No person may damage, deface, destroy, or remove, tie up a boat to, or in any way render inoperative or ineffective a marker, buoy, light or sound signal, radar reflector, or daymark or any part of these devices, including the attachment intended to hold the device in place.
(b)  The fact that a device or part of a device specified in Subsection (a) of this section may have been established by the state in water adjacent to but outside the territorial water of the state is not a defense against a prosecution for damaging state property.
Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1126, ch. 421, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1977.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.