1-1 By: Dear (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 228
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1995;
1-3 May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the penalty for certain violations of the law relating
1-9 to automotive wrecking and salvage yards in certain counties.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Sections 7(a) and (b), Chapter 953, Acts of the
1-12 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 2372dd-1, Vernon's
1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally violates Section
1-15 3 or 3A of this Act commits an offense. An offense under this
1-16 subsection is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not
1-17 less than $100 and not more than $500.
1-18 (b) If a county ordinance adopted under Section 5 of this
1-19 Act defines an offense for a violation of the ordinance, the
1-20 offense is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less
1-21 than $100 and not more than $500.
1-22 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-23 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-24 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
1-25 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
1-26 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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