1-1  By:  Kamel, Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)             H.B. No. 341
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to an offense for operation of a motor vehicle on a hike
    1-9  and bike trail.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 13, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-12  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-13  by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
   1-14        (o)  "Hike and bike trail" means a trail designed exclusively
   1-15  for the use of pedestrians, bicycles, or both.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Section 187, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-17  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-18  to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 187.  DRIVING UPON SIDEWALK OR HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL.  (a)
   1-20  No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a sidewalk,  <or>
   1-21  sidewalk area, or hike and bike trail except upon a permanent or
   1-22  duly authorized temporary driveway.
   1-23        (b)  This section does not prohibit the operation of a motor
   1-24  vehicle on a hike and bike trail in connection with maintenance of
   1-25  the trail.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-27        SECTION 4.  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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