1-1     By:  Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)              H.B. No. 1575
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to double parking in a central business district.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 545.302, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-13           (g)  If the governing body of a municipality determines that
1-14     it is necessary to improve the economic development of the
1-15     municipality's central business district and that it will not
1-16     adversely affect public safety, the governing body may adopt an
1-17     ordinance regulating the standing, stopping, or parking of a
1-18     vehicle at a place described by Subsection (a)(1), other than a
1-19     road or highway in the state highway system, in the central
1-20     business district of the municipality as defined in the ordinance.
1-21     To the extent of any conflict between the ordinance and Subsection
1-22     (a)(1), the ordinance controls.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 545.303, Transportation Code, is amended
1-24     by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-25           (e)  To the extent of any conflict between Subsection (a) or
1-26     (b) and a municipal ordinance adopted under Section 545.302(g), the
1-27     ordinance controls.
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,
1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.
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