By: Parra H.B. No. 2576
73R6436 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the registration of certain motor vehicles.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5(c), Chapter 3, Acts of the 43rd
1-5 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1934 (Article 6675a-3e, Vernon's
1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The symbol, tab, or device required by Subsection (b) of
1-8 this section shall be three inches in height and seven inches in
1-9 width and attached to the inside of the vehicle's rear window
1-10 <windshield>, if the vehicle is equipped with a rear window
1-11 <windshield, directly above the place where the motor vehicle
1-12 inspection sticker is required to be placed>. If the vehicle has
1-13 no rear window <windshield>, the person who operates the vehicle
1-14 shall, upon application for, or renewal of, the vehicle
1-15 registration, notify the department, whereby the department shall
1-16 issue a distinctive symbol, tab, or other device for attachment to
1-17 the rear license plate of the vehicle. License plates may be
1-18 purchased during the month preceding the date on which the
1-19 registration expires.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 765, Acts of the 72nd
1-21 Legislature, Regular Session, 1991, is repealed.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
1-23 change in law made by this Act applies only to an application to
1-24 register a motor vehicle or to renew the registration of a motor
2-1 vehicle that is made on or after that date.
2-2 SECTION 4. 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.