Sec. 71.011.  PROTECTION OF CARRIER FROM DAMAGES.  A carrier, including a railway, steamship, motorboat, bus, or truck, is not liable to a consignor or consignee for damages for refusing to receive and transport, or refusing to deliver across or into an area protected by a quarantine, any fruit, plant, shrub, or other carrier of an insect pest or plant disease in violation of an order or rule of the department under this subchapter.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1154, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 243, ch. 22, art. II, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.