1-1 By: Davis of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 2538
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
1-3 May 3, 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 compulsory inspection of certain vehicles to be
1-9 registered and titled outside this state.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 548.052, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 548.052. VEHICLES NOT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION. This
1-14 chapter does not apply to:
1-15 (1) a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-16 home moving under or bearing a current factory-delivery license
1-17 plate or current in-transit license plate;
1-18 (2) a vehicle moving under or bearing a paper dealer
1-19 in-transit tag, machinery license, disaster license, parade
1-20 license, prorate tab, one-trip permit, antique license, temporary
1-21 24-hour permit, or permit license;
1-22 (3) a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-23 home having an actual gross weight or registered gross weight of
1-24 4,500 pounds or less;
1-25 (4) farm machinery, road-building equipment, a farm
1-26 trailer, or a vehicle required to display a slow-moving-vehicle
1-27 emblem under Section 547.703; [or]
1-28 (5) a former military vehicle, as defined by Section
1-29 502.275; or
1-30 (6) a vehicle qualified for a tax exemption under
1-31 Section 152.092, Tax Code [502.275(o)].
1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38 passage, and it is so enacted.
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