1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the registration of certain golf carts.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 502.284, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 502.284.  GOLF CARTS.  (a)  An owner of a golf cart

 1-7     driven to and from a golf course is not required to register the

 1-8     golf cart.

 1-9           (b)  If an owner of a golf cart resides on real property that

1-10     is owned or under the control of the United States Corps of

1-11     Engineers and is required by that agency to register the owner's

1-12     golf cart under this chapter, the fee for registering the golf cart

1-13     is $10.  This subsection applies only to an owner of a golf cart

1-14     who resides in a county that borders another state and has a

1-15     population of more than 95,000 but less than 100,000.

1-16           (c)  Subsection (b) does not authorize the operation of a

1-17     golf cart on a public road where otherwise prohibited by law.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3063 was passed by the House on May

         7, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3063 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor