By Gray H.B. No. 186
75R2056 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the requirement that the person in charge of a railroad
1-3 locomotive sound a whistle, air whistle, or air siren and ring a
1-4 bell at the intersection of the railway and certain roads and
1-5 streets.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Section 471.006(b), Tansportation Code, is
1-8 amended to read as follows:
1-9 (b) The engineer in charge of the locomotive shall ring the
1-10 bell and blow the whistle or siren at least one-quarter mile from
1-11 the place where the railroad crosses a [public] road or street,
1-12 including a private road or street with unrestricted access. The
1-13 engineer shall continue to ring the bell until the locomotive has
1-14 crossed the road or street or has stopped.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.