By Brimer H.B. No. 3025
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to parking fees imposed by a governmental authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 681.006(b), Transportation Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The owner of a vehicle is exempt from the payment of a
1-7 fee or penalty imposed by a governmental unit for parking at a
1-8 meter [or in a space] with a limitation on the length of time for
1-9 parking if:
1-10 (1) the vehicle is being operated by or for the
1-11 transportation of a person with a disability; and
1-12 (2) there are:
1-13 (A) displayed on the vehicle special license
1-14 plates issued under Section 502.253; or
1-15 (B) placed on the rearview mirror of the
1-16 vehicle's front windshield a disabled parking placard.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 681.006, Transportation Code, is amended
1-18 by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-19 (e) Nothing in this code shall be interpreted as exempting
1-20 any owner or operator of a vehicle from payment of fees or
1-21 penalties imposed by a governmental unit for parking at a meter, in
1-22 a parking garage or lot, or in a space located within the
1-23 boundaries of a municipal airport.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended and this rule is hereby suspended.