H.B. No. 709 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to storage fees charged by a vehicle storage facility. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 14(c), Vehicle Storage Facility Act 1-5 (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (c) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not 1-7 charge less than $5 or more than $15 for each day or part of a day 1-8 for storage of a vehicle. A daily storage fee may be charged for a 1-9 day regardless of whether the vehicle is stored for 24 hours of the 1-10 day, except that a daily storage fee may not be charged for more 1-11 than one day if the vehicle remains at the vehicle storage facility 1-12 less than 12 hours. For the purposes of this subsection, a day is 1-13 considered to begin and end at midnight. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.