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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