By: Jackson H.B. No. 450
73R2168 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the safe operation of motor carriers on highways.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 139(f), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-5 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (f) Any peace officer of any city having a population of
1-8 25,000 <300,000> or more, certified for this purpose by the
1-9 Director, may detain any motor vehicle on any street or highway
1-10 within such city subject to this section or to any regulation
1-11 adopted in accordance with this section. Such certification
1-12 procedures including the proper training of said officers shall be
1-13 determined by the Department. The Department by rule may establish
1-14 reasonable fees sufficient to recover from a city the costs of
1-15 training and certifying peace officers of the city under this
1-16 section.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.