1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1233
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to exemption from inscription requirements for an
1-9 automobile used by a municipal or county medical examiner.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 721.005,
1-12 Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The governing body of a municipality may exempt from the
1-14 requirements of Section 721.004 an automobile when used to perform
1-15 an official duty by a:
1-16 (1) police department; [or]
1-17 (2) magistrate as defined by Article 2.09, Code of
1-18 Criminal Procedure; or
1-19 (3) medical examiner.
1-20 (b) The commissioners court of a county may exempt from the
1-21 requirements of Section 721.004:
1-22 (1) an automobile when used to perform an official
1-23 duty by a:
1-24 (A) police department;
1-25 (B) sheriff's office;
1-26 (C) constable's office;
1-27 (D) criminal district attorney's office;
1-28 (E) district attorney's office;
1-29 (F) county attorney's office; [or]
1-30 (G) magistrate as defined by Article 2.09, Code
1-31 of Criminal Procedure; or
1-32 (H) medical examiner; or
1-33 (2) a juvenile probation department vehicle used to
1-34 transport children, when used to perform an official duty.
1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41 passage, and it is so enacted.
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