By Cuellar of Hidalgo H.B. No. 106
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 106:
By Munoz C.S.H.B. No. 106
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of a sticker showing the license plate
1-3 letters and numbers of a motor vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
1-6 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et seq.,
1-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 13-3/4
1-8 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 13-3/4. (a) The Department shall issue a sticker on
1-10 initial registration of each motor vehicle in this State and on any
1-11 subsequent registration in which the vehicle's license plate
1-12 letters or numbers are changed. The sticker shall display the
1-13 license plate letters and numbers assigned to the vehicle.
1-14 (b) The owner of the motor vehicle shall affix the sticker
1-15 issued under subsection (a) of this section to a window of the
1-16 vehicle in the manner prescribed by the Department.
1-17 (c) Any person issued a sticker under this section commits
1-18 an offense if the person operates a motor vehicle on a public
1-19 highway without displaying the sticker as required by this section.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 13a, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of
1-21 the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et
1-22 seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-23 follows:
1-24 (a) The owner of a registered motor vehicle may obtain from
2-1 the Department through the County Tax Collector replacement number
2-2 plates for such vehicle by filing with said collector a statement
2-3 showing that said number plate or plates have been lost, stolen or
2-4 mutilated, and by paying a fee of five dollars for each set of
2-5 plates issued. The County Tax Assessor-Collector shall retain as
2-6 commission one-half (1/2) of this fee collected for replacement
2-7 number plates and the other one-half (1/2) of such fee shall be
2-8 reported to and remitted to the State Department of Highways and
2-9 Public Transportation on Monday of each week as other registration
2-10 fees are now required to be reported and remitted.
2-11 (b) The owner of a registered motor vehicle for which a
2-12 sticker has been issued under Section 13-3/4 of this Act may obtain
2-13 from the Department through the County Tax Collector replacement
2-14 number plates and sticker for such vehicle by filing with said
2-15 collector a statement showing that said number plate or plates, or
2-16 sticker have been lost, stolen or mutilated, and by paying a fee of
2-17 seven dollars for each set of plates and sticker issued. The
2-18 County Tax Assessor-Collector shall retain as commission $2.50 of
2-19 this fee collected for replacement number plates and sticker and
2-20 the other $4.50 of such fee shall be reported to and remitted to
2-21 the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation on
2-22 Monday of each week as other registration fees are now required to
2-23 be reported and remitted.
2-24 (c) In case one or more plates, or a sticker are left in
2-25 possession of such owner same shall be returned to the Tax
2-26 Collector when making a <this> statement under this section. Said
2-27 statement shall state that such plate, <or> plates, or sticker have
3-1 been lost, stolen or mutilated and will not be used on any vehicle
3-2 owned or operated by the person making this statement. No Tax
3-3 Collector shall issue replacement plates or stickers without
3-4 requiring compliance with the provisions of this Section.
3-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. For
3-6 license plates manufactured on or after September 1, 1994 the
3-7 department shall prepare stickers required by this Act for issuance
3-8 with such plates.
3-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.