By: Blackwood H.B. No. 710
73R3764 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to log-in 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, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article
1-5 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 14. Fees; Charges. (a) The operator of a vehicle
1-7 storage facility may not charge an owner more than $25 for
1-8 notification under Section 13 of this article.
1-9 (b) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not
1-10 charge an owner more than $10 for preservation of a stored motor
1-11 vehicle.
1-12 (c) The owner of a vehicle storage facility may not charge
1-13 more than $50 for logging in a vehicle.
1-14 (d) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not
1-15 charge less than $5 or more than $15 for each day or part of a day
1-16 for storage of a vehicle.
1-17 (e) <(d)> The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not
1-18 charge any additional fees that are similar to notification,
1-19 preservation, or administrative fees.
1-20 (f) <(e)> This section controls over <overs> any conflicting
1-21 municipal ordinance or charter provision.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.