1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1449
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 29, 1993; April 29, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; May 12, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the identification of certain city and county vehicles.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 235, Acts of the 56th
1-24 Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 6701m-2, Vernon's Texas
1-25 Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 121 and 1051, Acts of the
1-26 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as
1-27 follows:
1-28 Sec. 1. On every city or county-owned motor vehicle and
1-29 piece of heavy equipment, there shall be printed upon each side the
1-30 name of the city or county, followed in letters that are plainly
1-31 legible at a distance of not less than 100 feet, the title of the
1-32 department or official having the custody of the vehicle or piece
1-33 of heavy equipment, and the inscription shall be in a color
1-34 sufficiently different from the body of the vehicle or piece of
1-35 heavy equipment so that the lettering shall be plainly legible, and
1-36 the official having control thereof shall have the wording placed
1-37 thereon as prescribed herein, and whoever drives any motor vehicle
1-38 or piece of heavy equipment belonging to any city or county upon
1-39 the streets of any town or city or upon a public highway without
1-40 the inscription printed thereon shall be fined not less than
1-41 Twenty-five Dollars ($25) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100).
1-42 Provided however, upon approval of the governing body in the case
1-43 of a city or the approval of the commissioners court in the case of
1-44 a county, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to
1-45 automobiles used by police, sheriffs' and constables' departments,
1-46 the office of criminal district attorney, district attorney, or
1-47 county attorney, magistrates as defined by Article 2.09, Code of
1-48 Criminal Procedure, city or county arson investigators, or juvenile
1-49 probation department vehicles used to transport children, when used
1-50 for the purpose of performing official duties. This exception for
1-51 unmarked vehicles does not apply to "contract deputies".
1-52 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-53 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-54 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 May 12, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-66 referred S.B. No. 1449, have had the same under consideration, and
1-67 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-68 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-1 Armbrister,
2-2 Chairman
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 FOR AGAINST ON
2-6 ___________________________________________________________________
2-7 Name: T.A. Britt x
2-8 Representing: Houston Police Officers Assoc.
2-9 City: Houston
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