H.B. No. 710
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to 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 2(3), Vehicle Storage Facility Act
1-5 (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (3) "Vehicle storage facility" means a garage, parking
1-7 lot, or any type of facility owned by a person other than a
1-8 governmental entity, except as provided by Section 14(f) of this
1-9 article, for storing or parking 10 or more vehicles.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 14, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article
1-11 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended by amending Subsections (b)
1-12 and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not
1-14 charge an owner more than $10 for any action taken by or at the
1-15 direction of the operator or owner of the vehicle storage facility
1-16 necessary to preserve, protect, or service a vehicle stored or
1-17 parked at the facility <preservation of a stored motor vehicle>.
1-18 (e) This section controls over <overs> any conflicting
1-19 municipal ordinance or charter provision.
1-20 (f) For the purposes of this section, "vehicle storage
1-21 facility" includes a garage, parking lot, or any type of facility
1-22 owned by a governmental entity for storing or parking 10 or more
1-23 vehicles.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.