Sec. 78.052.  APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER:  MARINE FIRE EMERGENCY.  This subchapter applies only to damages for personal injury, death, or property damage arising from an error or omission of:
(1)  a nonprofit fire department providing services to respond to marine fire emergencies under contract to a governmental unit, if the error or omission occurs in responding to a marine fire emergency:
(A)  on the navigable waters of this state;
(B)  in any place into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway;
(C)  on property owned or under the control of the governmental unit;  or
(D)  at the request of the governmental unit in the interest of public safety;  or
(2)  a fire fighter providing services described by Subdivision (1).
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.