1-1     By:  Clark (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                 H.B. No. 3063

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;

 1-3     May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the registration of certain golf carts.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 502.284, Transportation Code, is amended

1-11     to read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 502.284.  GOLF CARTS.  (a)  An owner of a golf cart

1-13     driven to and from a golf course is not required to register the

1-14     golf cart.

1-15           (b)  If an owner of a golf cart resides on real property that

1-16     is owned or under the control of the United States Corps of

1-17     Engineers and is required by that agency to register the owner's

1-18     golf cart under this chapter, the fee for registering the golf cart

1-19     is $10.  This subsection applies only to an owner of a golf cart

1-20     who resides in a county that borders another state and has a

1-21     population of more than 95,000 but less than 100,000.

1-22           (c)  Subsection (b) does not authorize the operation of a

1-23     golf cart on a public road where otherwise prohibited by law.

1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.

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