1-1 By: Smith, Allen (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 1103
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to when a vehicle becomes a junked vehicle.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 683.071, Transportation Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 683.071. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "junked
1-13 vehicle" means a vehicle that is self-propelled [and inoperable]
1-14 and:
1-15 (1) does not have lawfully attached to it:
1-16 (A) an unexpired license plate; or
1-17 (B) a valid motor vehicle inspection
1-18 certificate;
1-19 (2) is wrecked, dismantled or partially dismantled, or
1-20 discarded; or
1-21 (3) is inoperable and has remained inoperable for more
1-22 than:
1-23 (A) 72 consecutive hours, if the vehicle is on
1-24 public property; or
1-25 (B) 30 [45] consecutive days, if the vehicle is
1-26 on private property.
1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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