By Clark                                        H.B. No. 3063

      75R7275 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 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, for purposes of registration, the

1-13     golf cart shall be treated as if the golf cart  were a motorcycle,

1-14     except that the fee for registering the golf cart is $15.  This

1-15     subsection applies only to an owner of a golf cart who resides in a

1-16     county that borders another state and has a population of more than

1-17     95,000 but less than 100,000.

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.