By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1182 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to amendments to Article 6701d (22), Vernon's Texas Civil 1-2 Statutes. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Sec. 22, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-5 Highways (Article 6701d (22), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Required obedience to traffic laws 1-8 Sec. 22. (a) It is unlawful and unless otherwise declared 1-9 in this Act with respect to particular offenses, it is a 1-10 misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to 1-11 perform any act required in this Act. 1-12 (b) When any person is charged with having committed an 1-13 offense under this Act, proof that the vehicle identified in the 1-14 complaint was, at the date of the offense alleged, owned by the 1-15 person charged with the offense, shall constitute prima facie 1-16 evidence that the owner was the person who committed the offense as 1-17 charged in the complaint. 1-18 (c) A certified copy of the title and registration records 1-19 relating to the ownership of said vehicle shall be admissible as 1-20 prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein. 1-21 (d) Notwithstanding the provisions in Subsections (a) and 1-22 (b) of this section, the owner of the vehicle shall have the right 1-23 to introduce evidence to show that said vehicle was not in the 2-1 owner's possession or control at such time and place as charged in 2-2 the complaint. The provisions of this section shall not affect the 2-3 presumption of innocence but shall shift the burden of proof to the 2-4 defendant to rebut the presumptions set forth in Subsections (a) 2-5 and (b). 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.