73R8037 JD-F
By Yarbrough H.B. No. 1070
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1070:
By Siebert C.S.H.B. No. 1070
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of vehicle storage facilities; providing
1-3 penalties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 17, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article
1-6 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 17. OFFENSES; PENALTIES <PENALTY>. (a) A person
1-8 commits an offense if the person:
1-9 (1) operates a vehicle storage facility that does not
1-10 have a valid license issued under this article;
1-11 (2) violates any other provision of this article; or
1-12 (3) violates any rule adopted by the commissioner
1-13 under this article.
1-14 (b) An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of
1-15 not less than $200 and not more than $500 <a Class C misdemeanor>.
1-16 (c) A person commits a separate offense for each day the
1-17 person acts in violation of this section.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
1-19 changes in law made by this Act apply only to an offense committed
1-20 on or after that date. An offense committed before the effective
1-21 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
1-22 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-23 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
1-24 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-1 occurred before that date.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.