1-1  By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1420
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on International Relations,
    1-4  Trade, and Technology; March 15, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to temporary registration permits for commercial motor
    1-9  vehicles.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Chapter 707, Acts of the 59th Legislature,
   1-12  Regular Session, 1965 (Article 6675a-6d, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-13  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 1.  To provide for the movement of commercial motor
   1-15  vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, and motor buses owned by
   1-16  residents of the United States, <or> Canada, or Mexico which are
   1-17  subject to registration by the State of Texas and which are not
   1-18  authorized to travel on the public roads of the State for lack of
   1-19  registration or for lack of reciprocity with a <the> State of the
   1-20  United States, a State of the United Mexican States, or a Canadian
   1-21  Province in which such vehicles are registered, the Texas <Highway>
   1-22  Department of Transportation is authorized to issue temporary
   1-23  permits which will be recognized in lieu of registration upon the
   1-24  highways of this State.
   1-25        Sec. 2.  A temporary permit shall be issued for a vehicle
   1-26  described in Section 1 of this Act.  A permit valid for seventy-two
   1-27  (72) hours shall be issued to each such vehicle for the fee of
   1-28  Twenty-five Dollars ($25), and a permit valid for one hundred
   1-29  forty-four (144) hours shall be issued to each such vehicle for a
   1-30  fee of Fifty Dollars ($50).  A permit issued under this subsection
   1-31  shall be valid for the period of time stated on the permit,
   1-32  beginning with the effective day and time as shown on the receipt
   1-33  issued as evidence of the registration.  A vehicle with a permit
   1-34  issued under this section is subject to Sections 140 and 141,
   1-35  Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
   1-36  Texas Civil Statutes), except:
   1-37              (1)  a vehicle currently registered in another State of
   1-38  the United States, <or> a Province of Canada, or a State of the
   1-39  United Mexican States; and
   1-40              (2)  mobile drilling and servicing equipment used in
   1-41  the production of gas, crude petroleum, or oil, including, but not
   1-42  limited to, mobile cranes and hoisting equipment, mobile lift
   1-43  equipment, forklifts, and tugs.
   1-44        Sec. 3.  The Texas <Highway> Department of Transportation
   1-45  may, from time to time, promulgate such reasonable rules and
   1-46  regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the orderly
   1-47  operation of this Act and may prescribe an application for such
   1-48  permits and other forms as it may deem proper.
   1-49        Sec. 4.  A permit under this Act shall not be issued to
   1-50  commercial motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, or motor buses
   1-51  apprehended for violating the registration laws of this State; and,
   1-52  furthermore, such apprehended vehicles shall be immediately subject
   1-53  to Texas registration as prescribed by law.
   1-54        Sec. 5.  Such temporary registration permits shall be issued
   1-55  by the County Tax Assessor-Collectors or by the Texas <Highway>
   1-56  Department of Transportation upon receipt of proper application
   1-57  accompanied by the statutory fees, as prescribed by Section 2
   1-58  above, in cash, postal money order, or certified check for each
   1-59  such vehicle to be operated or moved upon the public highways.  All
   1-60  temporary permit fees collected by the Texas <Highway> Department
   1-61  of Transportation shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the
   1-62  credit of the State Highway Fund, and such fees collected by the
   1-63  County Tax Assessor-Collectors shall be reported and deposited the
   1-64  same as all registration fees as provided by Section 10, Chapter
   1-65  88, Acts of the Forty-first Legislature, Second Called Session,
   1-66  1929, as amended by Section 2, Chapter 301, Acts of the Fifty-fifth
   1-67  Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (codified in Vernon's Texas
   1-68  Civil Statutes as Article 6675a--10).
    2-1        Sec. 6.  Before the issuance of such temporary registration
    2-2  permits, the operator shall present to the County Tax
    2-3  Assessor-Collector or the Texas Department of Transportation
    2-4  evidence of financial responsibility as would be required with
    2-5  applications for registration pursuant to Section 2a, Chapter 88,
    2-6  General Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session,
    2-7  1929 (Article 6675a-2a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    2-8        Sec. 7.  Any person operating a commercial motor vehicle,
    2-9  trailer, or semitrailer with an expired permit issued under this
   2-10  Act shall be deemed to be operating an unregistered vehicle subject
   2-11  to the penalties as prescribed by law.
   2-12        Sec. 8.  To the extent of any conflict between this Act and
   2-13  other laws or parts of laws the provisions of this Act control.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.
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