1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 945
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1997; March 10, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 26, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12,
1-5 Nays 0; March 26, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to certain fees charged by vehicle storage facilities.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subdivision (7), Section 2, Vehicle Storage
1-11 Facility Act (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (7) "Impoundment" ["Preservation"] means an action
1-14 taken by or at the direction of the owner or operator of a vehicle
1-15 storage facility that is necessary to preserve, protect, or service
1-16 a vehicle stored or parked at the facility.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Section 14, Vehicle Storage
1-18 Facility Act (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 (d) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not
1-21 charge any additional fees that are similar to notification,
1-22 impoundment [preservation], or administrative fees.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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