H.B. No. 341
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an offense for operation of a motor vehicle on a hike
    1-3  and bike trail.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 13, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-6  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-7  by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
    1-8        (o)  "Hike and bike trail" means a trail designed exclusively
    1-9  for the use of pedestrians, bicycles, or both.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 187, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-11  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-12  to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 187.  DRIVING UPON SIDEWALK OR HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL.  (a)
   1-14  No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a sidewalk,  <or>
   1-15  sidewalk area, or hike and bike trail except upon a permanent or
   1-16  duly authorized temporary driveway.
   1-17        (b)  This section does not prohibit the operation of a motor
   1-18  vehicle on a hike and bike trail in connection with maintenance of
   1-19  the trail.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.