By Hilbert H.B. No. 2264
74R4529 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to registration and insurance requirements for a military
1-3 collector's vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5a, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the
1-6 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-5a,
1-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsections
1-8 (a), (b), and (d) and adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
1-9 (a) Passenger cars, trucks, and motorcycles that are
1-10 twenty-five (25) or more years old and military collector's
1-11 vehicles<,> shall be excepted from the annual license fee for
1-12 registration otherwise provided by law upon written, sworn
1-13 application by the owner thereof on a form furnished by the
1-14 Department. Such application for a passenger car, truck, or
1-15 motorcycle shall show the make, body style, motor number, and age
1-16 of the vehicle. An application for a military collector's vehicle
1-17 shall include the vehicle's year of manufacture and a description
1-18 of the vehicle containing information required by the Department.
1-19 Each application shall include <, and> any other information
1-20 required by the Department, and shall also state that the vehicle
1-21 is a collector's item and will be used solely for exhibitions, club
1-22 activities, parades, and other functions of public interest, and in
1-23 no case for regular transportation, and will carry no advertising.
1-24 (b) The Department shall issue license plates which shall
2-1 contain the words "Antique Auto," "Antique Truck," <or> "Antique
2-2 Motorcycle," or "Military Vehicle" and which are valid for a
2-3 maximum period of five (5) years. Alternatively, the Department
2-4 may allow antique license plates to be used on an antique vehicle
2-5 if the owner of the vehicle presents the antique license plates to
2-6 the Department for approval and the antique license plates were
2-7 issued by this state in the same year as the model year of the
2-8 vehicle. If antique license plates are used on a vehicle, the
2-9 Department shall issue to the owner a symbol, valid for a maximum
2-10 period of five (5) years, to be placed on one of the license
2-11 plates, as determined by the Department, designating the year in
2-12 which the vehicle was registered under this section. The
2-13 Department may exempt a military collector's vehicle from the
2-14 requirement to display license plates or any symbol, tab, or other
2-15 device indicating registration of the vehicle if the Department
2-16 determines that the exemption is necessary to maintain the
2-17 vehicle's accurate military design or markings.
2-18 (d) On application and payment of the proper fee to the
2-19 County Tax Assessor-Collector of the county in which the owner
2-20 resides, the Department shall furnish such license plates or a
2-21 symbol, if applicable, and receipts which shall be issued to the
2-22 owner. Any required <and such> plates or symbol shall be valid
2-23 without renewal for the period for which the vehicle is registered,
2-24 provided such vehicle continues to be owned by the same owner.
2-25 (h) In this section, "military collector's vehicle" means a
2-26 vehicle, regardless of the vehicle's size, weight, or year of
2-27 manufacture, that:
3-1 (1) was manufactured for use in a country's military
3-2 forces;
3-3 (2) is maintained to accurately represent its military
3-4 design and markings;
3-5 (3) is not used for a commercial purpose; and
3-6 (4) is owned by:
3-7 (A) an organization described by Section
3-8 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the activities of which
3-9 include the restoration or display of vehicles manufactured for use
3-10 in a country's military forces; or
3-11 (B) a member of or person otherwise affiliated
3-12 with an organization described by Paragraph (A) of this subdivision
3-13 who uses the vehicle primarily in activities organized or sponsored
3-14 by the organization.
3-15 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Insurance Code, is
3-16 amended by adding Article 5.01-3 to read as follows:
3-17 Art. 5.01-3. MILITARY COLLECTOR'S VEHICLES. (a) A rating
3-18 plan that includes a classification applicable to antique, private
3-19 passenger vehicles maintained primarily for use in exhibitions,
3-20 club activities, parades, and other functions of public interest
3-21 and occasionally used for other purposes, must include in that
3-22 classification military collector's vehicles maintained for those
3-23 uses.
3-24 (b) In this article, "military collector's vehicle" has the
3-25 meaning assigned by Section 5a(h), Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts
3-26 of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article
3-27 6675a-5a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
4-1 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
4-2 5a, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd
4-3 Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-5a, Vernon's Texas Civil
4-4 Statutes), apply only to a vehicle registration period beginning on
4-5 or after the effective date of this Act.
4-6 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
4-7 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.