By Kamel, Bosse H.B. No. 341
74R1592 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.