By Bailey H.B. No. 2865 75R6128 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the work outside fences in automotive wrecking or 1-3 salvage yards and the display or storage of junked items outside 1-4 those fences in certain counties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 397.001, Transportation Code, is amended 1-7 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 397.001. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter 1-9 applies only to an automotive wrecking and salvage yard that: 1-10 (1) is in a county with a population of two million or 1-11 more; 1-12 (2) is not located within a municipality in that 1-13 county; and 1-14 (3) is established on or after September 1, 1983, 1-15 except as provided by Section 397.007. 1-16 SECTION 2. Section 397.007, Transportation Code, is amended 1-17 to read as follows: 1-18 Sec. 397.007. DISPLAY OR WORK OUTSIDE FENCE PROHIBITED. (a) 1-19 An owner or operator of an automotive wrecking and salvage yard or 1-20 that person's agent or employee may not display, store, or work on 1-21 a junked or wrecked automotive vehicle or a part, accessory, or 1-22 junk from the vehicle outside or above the fence required by this 1-23 chapter. 1-24 (b) This section applies regardless of when the automotive 2-1 wrecking and salvage yard was established. 2-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.