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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