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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