By Hill                                               H.B. No. 1672
         76R4880 DWS-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to disposal of certain motor vehicles.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 683.051, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 683.051.  APPLICATION FOR AUTHORIZATION TO DISPOSE OF
 1-7     CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES.  A person may apply to the department for
 1-8     authority:
 1-9                 (1)  to sell, give away, or dispose of a motor vehicle
1-10     to a motor vehicle demolisher if:
1-11                       (A)  the person owns the motor vehicle and the
1-12     certificate of title to the vehicle is lost, destroyed, or faulty;
1-13     or
1-14                       (B)  the vehicle is an abandoned motor vehicle
1-15     and is:
1-16                             (i)  in the possession of the person; or
1-17                             (ii)  located on property owned by the
1-18     person; or
1-19                 (2)  to dispose of a motor vehicle to a motor vehicle
1-20     demolisher for demolition, wrecking, or dismantling if:
1-21                       (A)  the abandoned motor vehicle:
1-22                             (i)  is in the possession of the person;
1-23                             (ii)  is more than eight years old;
1-24                             (iii)  does not comply with all applicable
 2-1     air pollution emissions control related requirements included in:
 2-2                                            (a)  the vehicle inspection
 2-3     requirements under Chapter 548, as evidenced by a current
 2-4     inspection certificate affixed to the vehicle windshield; or
 2-5                                            (b)  the vehicle emissions
 2-6     inspection and maintenance requirements contained in the Public
 2-7     Safety Commission's motor vehicle emissions inspection and
 2-8     maintenance program under Subchapter F, Chapter 548, or the state's
 2-9     air quality state implementation plan [has no motor or is otherwise
2-10     totally inoperable]; and
2-11                             (iv)  was authorized to be towed by a law
2-12     enforcement agency; and
2-13                       (B)  the law enforcement agency approves the
2-14     application.
2-15           SECTION 2.  Section 683.054(b), Transportation Code, is
2-16     amended to read as follows:
2-17           (b)  Without giving the notice required by Section 683.053,
2-18     the department may issue to an applicant under Section 683.051(2) a
2-19     certificate of authority to dispose of the motor vehicle to a
2-20     demolisher if the vehicle meets the requirements of Sections
2-21     683.051(2)(A)(ii) and (iii)[:]
2-22                 [(1)  is more than eight years old; and]
2-23                 [(2)  has no motor or is otherwise totally inoperable].
2-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-25           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.