By: Wentworth S.B. No. 323
73R4365 JD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of special license plates for certain
1-3 vehicles to be operated by or for the transportation of disabled
1-4 persons.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th
1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's
1-8 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 4. Special license plates shall be issued for
1-10 motorcycles, <with side cars that have been specifically modified
1-11 by the manufacturer to be operated by disabled persons and>
1-12 passenger vehicles, and light commercial vehicles having a
1-13 manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one ton or less operated
1-14 by or for the transportation of permanently disabled persons for
1-15 noncommercial use.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.