By Driver H.B. No. 2733
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation of golf carts on a public road or
1-3 highway.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.284, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 502.284. GOLF CARTS. An owner of a golf cart driven to
1-8 and from a golf course is not required to register the golf cart
1-9 if:
1-10 (1) the operation of the golf cart occurs in the
1-11 daytime, as defined by Section 541.401; and
1-12 (2) the operation:
1-13 (A) does not exceed a distance of two miles from
1-14 the point of origin to the destination; or
1-15 (B) occurs entirely within a master planned
1-16 community with a uniform set of restrictive covenants that has had
1-17 a plat approved by a county or a municipality.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 547.002, Transportation Code, is amended
1-19 to read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 547.002. APPLICABILITY. Unless a provision is
1-21 specifically made applicable, this chapter and the rules of the
1-22 department adopted under this chapter do not apply to:
1-23 (1) an implement of husbandry;
1-24 (2) road machinery;
2-1 (3) a road roller;
2-2 (4) a farm tractor; [or]
2-3 (5) a bicycle, a bicyclist, or bicycle equipment; or
2-4 (6) a golf cart not required to be registered under
2-5 Section 502.284.
2-6 SECTION 3. Section 601.052(a), Transportation Code, is
2-7 amended to read as follows:
2-8 (a) Section 601.051 does not apply to:
2-9 (1) the operation of a motor vehicle that:
2-10 (A) is a former military vehicle or is at least
2-11 25 years old;
2-12 (B) is used only for exhibitions, club
2-13 activities, parades, and other functions of public interest and not
2-14 for regular transportation; and
2-15 (C) for which the owner files with the
2-16 department an affidavit, signed by the owner, stating that the
2-17 vehicle is a collector's item and used only as described by
2-18 Paragraph (B);
2-19 (2) the operation of a golf cart not required to be
2-20 registered under Section 502.284; or
2-21 (3) a volunteer fire department for the operation of a
2-22 motor vehicle the title of which is held in the name of a volunteer
2-23 fire department.
2-24 SECTION 4. In addition to the substantive changes made by
2-25 this Act, this Act conforms Section 601.052(a), Transportation
2-26 Code, to Section 4, Chapter 443, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
2-27 Regular Session, 1995. To the extent of any conflict, this Act
3-1 prevails over another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
3-2 1997, relating to nonsubstantive additions and amendments to
3-3 enacted codes.
3-4 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-5 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.