By Yarbrough H.B. No. 892 74R2702 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the power of a county to enact a juvenile curfew; 1-3 providing a penalty. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 351.903 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 351.903. JUVENILE CURFEW ORDER. (a) The commissioners 1-8 court of a county by order may adopt a curfew applying to the 1-9 unincorporated area of a county to regulate the movements or 1-10 actions of persons under the age of 17. 1-11 (b) This authority includes the authority to: 1-12 (1) establish the hours of the curfew, including 1-13 different hours for different days of the week; 1-14 (2) apply different curfew hours to different age 1-15 groups of juveniles; 1-16 (3) describe the kinds of conduct subject to the 1-17 curfew; 1-18 (4) determine the locations to which the curfew 1-19 applies; 1-20 (5) determine which persons incur liability if a 1-21 violation of the curfew occurs; 1-22 (6) prescribe procedures a police officer or other 1-23 person must follow in enforcing the curfew; and 1-24 (7) establish exemptions from the curfew. 2-1 (c) A person commits an offense if the person violates a 2-2 restriction or prohibition imposed by an order adopted under this 2-3 section. An offense under this subsection is a Class B 2-4 misdemeanor. 2-5 (d) A county is entitled to appropriate injunctive relief to 2-6 prevent a violation of a regulation adopted under this section from 2-7 continuing or occurring. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.