1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the optional county vehicle 1-3 registration fees to all-terrain vehicles. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.006, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) Section 502.172 does not apply to an all-terrain 1-8 vehicle. 1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-15 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 523 was passed by the House on April 28, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 523 was passed by the Senate on May 17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor