1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to when a vehicle becomes a junked vehicle.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 683.071, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 683.071.  DEFINITION.  In this subchapter, "junked
 1-7     vehicle" means a vehicle that is self-propelled [and inoperable]
 1-8     and:
 1-9                 (1)  does not have lawfully attached to it:
1-10                       (A)  an unexpired license plate;  or
1-11                       (B)  a valid motor vehicle inspection
1-12     certificate;
1-13                 (2)  is wrecked, dismantled or partially dismantled, or
1-14     discarded;  or
1-15                 (3)  is inoperable and has remained inoperable for more
1-16     than:
1-17                       (A)  72 consecutive hours, if the vehicle is on
1-18     public property; or
1-19                       (B)  30 [45] consecutive days, if the vehicle is
1-20     on private property.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor