(a) Request. A person may submit a request in writing to hold an event at a travel information center. Requests will be approved in the order in which the orders are received.
(b) Agreement. Before a person may hold an event at a travel information center, the person must enter into a written agreement with the department agreeing to abide by the requirements of this section.
(c) Activity. All events at a travel information center or its facilities shall be conducted in a manner that will cause the least interference with the travel information center's operations.
(d) Restrictions. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited in a travel information center or its facilities and on the premises of the center. Any item, including food or drink, that is offered at the travel information center as part of an event, must be given free of charge to all visitors at the travel information center.
(e) Signs. The person hosting the event at a travel information center:
  (1) must receive prior approval of the director or the director's designee of each sign to be used for the event, including advance signs advising motorists of the event;
  (2) may not attach a sign to the travel information center or a highway sign or place a sign so that it interferes with the travel information center's operation or the view from the roadway of a highway sign;
  (3) shall prominently display a sign indicating that all items provided are free of charge to all visitors of the travel information center; and
  (4) except for the sign required under paragraph (3) of this subsection, shall limit the signs used to only those necessary to identify the person hosting the event and to ownership signs that are permanently affixed to trailers, vehicles, tents, and other equipment that are directly used for holding the event.
(f) Services. The department will not furnish utilities unless the department expressly agrees to do so in the written agreement required for the event.
(g) Cleanup. The person hosting the event is solely responsible for the cleanup of all facilities used for the event.
(h) Compliance. The department will monitor compliance with the requirements of this section. The department may immediately cancel event activities on the failure to comply with those requirements. The department may use a person's non-compliance as the basis for refusing future requests.

Source Note: The provisions of this §23.50 adopted to be effective January 7, 2015, 40 TexReg 95