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.