By: Moncrief S.B. No. 722
97S0399/1
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 of the Texas Department of Transportation
1-3 under certain conditions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 702.003,
1-6 Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of
1-8 Transportation [department] may refuse to register a motor vehicle
1-9 if the assessor-collector or the department receives under a
1-10 contract information from a municipality that the owner of the
1-11 vehicle either has three or more unpaid delinquent parking
1-12 citations or has an outstanding warrant from that municipality for
1-13 failure to appear or failure to pay a fine on a complaint that
1-14 involves the violation of a traffic law.
1-15 (c) A municipality that has a contract under Subsection (b)
1-16 shall notify the county or the department regarding a person for
1-17 whom the county assessor-collector or the department has refused to
1-18 register a motor vehicle on:
1-19 (1) entry of a judgment against the person and the
1-20 person's payment to the court of the fine for the violation and of
1-21 all court costs;
1-22 (2) perfection of an appeal of the case for which the
1-23 arrest warrant was issued; [or]
2-1 (3) dismissal of the charge for which the arrest
2-2 warrant was issued; or
2-3 (4) dismissal or the payment of parking citations for
2-4 which registration had been refused.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.