Q: texas penal code title 4 chapter 16 section 16.06 in "layman's
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The black letter law isn't hard to understand but I guess it could be summed up as "don't install a tracking device on a vehicle without permission."
Read the law here: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.16.htm#16.06
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Unless you own the vehicle in question , or have leased it in your own name, you can't install or have another person install (for you) a tracker on another person's vehicle without their permission or pursuant to court order. Looks like a police officer can install such a device if she is dooing so in connection with a legitimate criminal investigation. Looks like she (officer) doesn't even need a warrant, at least under this staute. Federal law may contol this issue.
So answer is no, dude, you can't keep track of your girlfriend by sticking a beeper under her bumper, unless she's driving your car.
Kiele Linroth Pace agrees with this answer
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