S.B. No. 1420
AN ACT
1-1 relating to temporary registration permits for commercial motor
1-2 vehicles.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 707, Acts of the 59th Legislature,
1-5 Regular Session, 1965 (Article 6675a-6d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-6 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 1. To provide for the movement of commercial motor
1-8 vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, and motor buses owned by
1-9 residents of the United States, <or> Canada, or Mexico which are
1-10 subject to registration by the State of Texas and which are not
1-11 authorized to travel on the public roads of the State for lack of
1-12 registration or for lack of reciprocity with a <the> State of the
1-13 United States, a State of the United Mexican States, or a Canadian
1-14 Province in which such vehicles are registered, the Texas <Highway>
1-15 Department of Transportation is authorized to issue temporary
1-16 permits which will be recognized in lieu of registration upon the
1-17 highways of this State.
1-18 Sec. 2. A temporary permit shall be issued for a vehicle
1-19 described in Section 1 of this Act. A permit valid for seventy-two
1-20 (72) hours shall be issued to each such vehicle for the fee of
1-21 Twenty-five Dollars ($25), and a permit valid for one hundred
1-22 forty-four (144) hours shall be issued to each such vehicle for a
1-23 fee of Fifty Dollars ($50). A permit issued under this subsection
2-1 shall be valid for the period of time stated on the permit,
2-2 beginning with the effective day and time as shown on the receipt
2-3 issued as evidence of the registration. A vehicle with a permit
2-4 issued under this section is subject to Sections 140 and 141,
2-5 Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
2-6 Texas Civil Statutes), except:
2-7 (1) a vehicle currently registered in another State of
2-8 the United States, <or> a Province of Canada, or a State of the
2-9 United Mexican States; and
2-10 (2) mobile drilling and servicing equipment used in
2-11 the production of gas, crude petroleum, or oil, including, but not
2-12 limited to, mobile cranes and hoisting equipment, mobile lift
2-13 equipment, forklifts, and tugs.
2-14 Sec. 3. The Texas <Highway> Department of Transportation
2-15 may, from time to time, promulgate such reasonable rules and
2-16 regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the orderly
2-17 operation of this Act and may prescribe an application for such
2-18 permits and other forms as it may deem proper.
2-19 Sec. 4. A permit under this Act shall not be issued to
2-20 commercial motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, or motor buses
2-21 apprehended for violating the registration laws of this State; and,
2-22 furthermore, such apprehended vehicles shall be immediately subject
2-23 to Texas registration as prescribed by law.
2-24 Sec. 5. Such temporary registration permits shall be issued
2-25 by the County Tax Assessor-Collectors or by the Texas <Highway>
3-1 Department of Transportation upon receipt of proper application
3-2 accompanied by the statutory fees, as prescribed by Section 2
3-3 above, in cash, postal money order, or certified check for each
3-4 such vehicle to be operated or moved upon the public highways. All
3-5 temporary permit fees collected by the Texas <Highway> Department
3-6 of Transportation shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the
3-7 credit of the State Highway Fund, and such fees collected by the
3-8 County Tax Assessor-Collectors shall be reported and deposited the
3-9 same as all registration fees as provided by Section 10, Chapter
3-10 88, Acts of the Forty-first Legislature, Second Called Session,
3-11 1929, as amended by Section 2, Chapter 301, Acts of the Fifty-fifth
3-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (codified in Vernon's Texas
3-13 Civil Statutes as Article 6675a--10).
3-14 Sec. 6. Before the issuance of such temporary registration
3-15 permits, the operator shall present to the County Tax
3-16 Assessor-Collector or the Texas Department of Transportation
3-17 evidence of financial responsibility as would be required with
3-18 applications for registration pursuant to Section 2a, Chapter 88,
3-19 General Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session,
3-20 1929 (Article 6675a-2a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) in amounts
3-21 prescribed in Section 5, Texas Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility
3-22 Act (Article 6701h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and such
3-23 policies must be issued by an insurance company or surety company
3-24 authorized to write motor vehicle liability insurance in this
3-25 State.
4-1 Sec. 7. Any person operating a commercial motor vehicle,
4-2 trailer, or semitrailer with an expired permit issued under this
4-3 Act shall be deemed to be operating an unregistered vehicle subject
4-4 to the penalties as prescribed by law.
4-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
4-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
4-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.