By Serna H.B. No. 2775
74R7389 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the enforcement of vehicle parking ordinances in
1-3 certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Article 6701d-24, Revised Statutes, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 5. Enforcement. An order filed under Subsection (b) of
1-8 Section 4 of this article may be enforced by:
1-9 (1) impounding the vehicle; however, no vehicle may be
1-10 impounded unless the offender has committed three or more offenses
1-11 in any period of 12 consecutive months <calendar year>;
1-12 (2) placing a device that prohibits movement of a
1-13 motor vehicle on the vehicle that is the subject of the order
1-14 filed;
1-15 (3) added fine if not paid within a specified time;
1-16 (4) denial of parking permits; or
1-17 (5) refusing to allow the registration of the vehicle
1-18 as provided by Subsection (a-3), Section 2, Chapter 88, General
1-19 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-20 (Article 6675a-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-21 SECTION 2. 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.