By Romo, Corte, et al. H.B. No. 371
74R2574 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the safe operation of vehicles on highways.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 109(a), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-5 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Every vehicle upon a highway within this State at any
1-8 time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise
1-9 and at any other time when, due to insufficient light or
1-10 unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons and vehicles on the
1-11 highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of five hundred
1-12 (500) <one thousand (1,000)> feet ahead shall display lighted lamps
1-13 and illuminating devices as hereinafter respectively required for
1-14 different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect
1-15 to parked vehicles, and further that stop lights, turn signals and
1-16 other signaling devices shall be lighted as prescribed for the use
1-17 of such devices. In addition, the vehicle shall display the
1-18 lighted lamps and illuminating devices when, because of rain,
1-19 sleet, snow, hail, or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, the
1-20 operator of the vehicle is making use of the vehicle's windshield
1-21 wipers.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.