S.B. No. 866 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the use of abandoned motor vehicles by police 1-2 departments in certain counties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 5.031, Chapter 741, Acts 1-5 of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 4477-9a, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (d) This section does not apply to a motor vehicle that is 1-8 taken into custody by a police department located in a county with 1-9 a population of 2.4 million or more according to the most recent 1-10 federal decennial census and that is removed to a privately owned 1-11 storage facility. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.