By:  Culberson                                         H.B. No. 883
       73R3955 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to inventory and inventory records of an automobile
    1-3  salvage dealer.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 1(c) and (f), Chapter 506, Acts of the
    1-6  57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 6687-2, Vernon's
    1-7  Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (c)  A motor vehicle salvage dealer shall keep an accurate
    1-9  and legible inventory of each component part purchased by or
   1-10  delivered to him, as follows:
   1-11              (1)  date of purchase or delivery;
   1-12              (2)  name, age, address, sex, and driver's license
   1-13  number of the seller and a legible photocopy of the seller's
   1-14  driver's license;
   1-15              (3)  the license number of the motor vehicle used to
   1-16  deliver the component part;
   1-17              (4)  a complete description of the item purchased,
   1-18  including the type of material and, if applicable, the make, model,
   1-19  color, and size of the item; and
   1-20              (5)  the vehicle identification number of the motor
   1-21  vehicle from which the component part was removed and a legible
   1-22  photocopy of the certificate of title or salvage certificate of
   1-23  title for the motor vehicle.
   1-24        (f)(1)  A motor vehicle salvage dealer shall:
    2-1                    (A)  assign a unique inventory number to each
    2-2  transaction in which the salvage dealer purchases or takes delivery
    2-3  of one or more component parts;
    2-4                    (B)  attach the unique inventory number to each
    2-5  component part the dealer obtains in the transaction; and
    2-6                    (C)  retain each component part in its original
    2-7  condition on the business premises of the salvage dealer for at
    2-8  least five calendar days after the date on which the dealer obtains
    2-9  the part.
   2-10              (2)  A unique inventory number attached to a component
   2-11  part as required by Subdivision (1) of this subsection may not be
   2-12  removed while the part remains in the inventory of the motor
   2-13  vehicle salvage dealer.  <If a component part does not have a
   2-14  vehicle identification number or the vehicle identification number
   2-15  has been removed or the vehicle identification number of the
   2-16  vehicle from which the component part was removed is not available,
   2-17  a motor vehicle salvage dealer shall record the component part or
   2-18  component parts on an affidavit bill of sale.  The form of the
   2-19  affidavit bill of sale shall be prescribed and made available by
   2-20  the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation.>
   2-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   2-22  applies only to component parts of motor vehicles received by a
   2-23  motor vehicle salvage dealer on or after that date.  A motor
   2-24  vehicle component part received by a motor vehicle salvage dealer
   2-25  before the effective date of this Act is subject to the law in
   2-26  effect at the time the dealer received the part, and the former law
   2-27  is continued in effect for this purpose.
    3-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.