By: Ratliff S.B. No. 36
73R938 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption from registration for certain tow trucks.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2(a), Chapter 1135, Acts of the 70th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 6687-9b, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Sections 2A and <Section> 5 of
1-8 this Act, a person may not operate a tow truck in this state unless
1-9 the tow truck is registered with the department as provided by this
1-10 Act.
1-11 SECTION 2. Chapter 1135, Acts of the 70th Legislature,
1-12 Regular Session, 1987 (Article 6687-9b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-13 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 2A. EXEMPTION FOR TOW TRUCK NOT FOR HIRE. Registration
1-15 is not required under this Act for a tow truck to operate in a
1-16 county with a population of 150,000 or fewer if the tow truck is
1-17 not for hire and is conspicuously labeled "Not for hire" on both
1-18 sides.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.