1-1  By:  Serna (Senate Sponsor - Montford)                H.B. No. 2775
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 26, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 26, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the enforcement of vehicle parking ordinances in
   1-10  certain municipalities.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 5, Article 6701d-24, Revised Statutes, is
   1-13  amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 5.  Enforcement.  An order filed under Subsection (b) of
   1-15  Section 4 of this article may be enforced by:
   1-16              (1)  impounding the vehicle; however, no vehicle may be
   1-17  impounded unless the offender has committed three or more offenses
   1-18  in any period of 12 consecutive months <calendar year>;
   1-19              (2)  placing a device that prohibits movement of a
   1-20  motor vehicle on the vehicle that is the subject of the order
   1-21  filed;
   1-22              (3)  added fine if not paid within a specified time;
   1-23              (4)  denial of parking permits; or
   1-24              (5)  refusing to allow the registration of the vehicle
   1-25  as provided by Subsection (a-3), Section 2, Chapter 88, General
   1-26  Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
   1-27  (Article 6675a-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-28        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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