S.B. No. 664
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certain fishing apparatus anchored in the Trinity River
    1-2  near the Livingston Dam.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 61, Parks and Wildlife
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 61.201 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 61.201.  LIVINGSTON DAM FISHING PLATFORM.  (a)  No
    1-7  person may permanently anchor a barge, boat, or other fishing
    1-8  platform on the Trinity River downstream from the Livingston Dam
    1-9  within the area between the restricted area boundary that is 1,000
   1-10  feet from the dam and a point 1,500 feet downstream from the dam.
   1-11  A barge, boat, or other fishing platform is considered permanently
   1-12  anchored if it is anchored in the described area:
   1-13              (1)  for more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period without
   1-14  moving 100 feet or more during that time; or
   1-15              (2)  for five or more consecutive days, whether or not
   1-16  it has been moved.
   1-17        (b)  No person may leave a barge, boat, or other fishing
   1-18  platform unattended for any period of time if the barge, boat, or
   1-19  platform is within the area described in Subsection (a) of this
   1-20  section.
   1-21        (c)  A barge, boat, or other fishing platform that is left
   1-22  unattended for any period of time within the area described in
   1-23  Subsection (a) of this section may be impounded and may be
   1-24  reclaimed only by payment of both the fine imposed under this
    2-1  chapter and the cost of impoundment.
    2-2        (d)  Property impounded under this section that has not been
    2-3  claimed within the time period specified in Section 5.01(2),
    2-4  Chapter 741, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981
    2-5  (Article 4477-9a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), for disposition
    2-6  of an abandoned automobile is considered abandoned and may be
    2-7  disposed of in the same manner as an abandoned automobile in
    2-8  accordance with Article V of that Act.
    2-9        (e)  This section may be enforced by any peace officer listed
   2-10  in Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.