By: Moncrief S.B. No. 722 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the refusal of registration of motor vehicles by a 1-2 county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of Transportation 1-3 under certain conditions. 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 682.010, Transportation Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 682.010. Enforcement. (a) An order filed under 1-7 Section 682.009 may be enforced by: 1-8 (1) impounding the vehicle if the offender has 1-9 committed three or more vehicle parking or stopping offenses in a 1-10 calendar year; 1-11 (2) placing a device on the vehicle that prohibits 1-12 movement of the motor vehicle; 1-13 (3) imposing an additional fine if the original fine 1-14 is not paid within a specified time; or 1-15 (4) denying issuance of a parking permit. 1-16 (b) An eligible municipality with a population of 450,000 or 1-17 less may enter a contract with a county assessor-collector or the 1-18 Texas Department of Transportation under this chapter whereby the 1-19 assessor-collector or department may refuse to register a motor 1-20 vehicle if the assessor-collector or the department receives under 1-21 a contract information from a municipality under this subsection 1-22 that the owner of the vehicle has three or more unpaid parking 1-23 tickets. 2-1 (c) A municipality described by Subsection (b) and to which 2-2 Subsection (b) applies may contract with a county in which the 2-3 municipality is located or with the Texas Department of 2-4 Transportation to provide to the county or the department 2-5 information necessary to make a determination under Subsection (b). 2-6 (d) A municipality described by Subsection (b) that has a 2-7 contract under Subsection (c) shall notify the county or the Texas 2-8 Department of Transportation regarding a person for whom the county 2-9 assessor-collector or the department has refused to register a 2-10 motor vehicle on dismissal of or the payment of parking citations 2-11 on the basis of which registration had been refused. 2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.