1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a county to regulate automotive 1-3 wrecking and salvage yards. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 238.001(1), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (1) "Automotive wrecking and salvage yard" means a 1-8 business other than a business classified as a salvage pool 1-9 operator under Article 6687-1a, Revised Statutes, that stores three 1-10 or more wrecked vehicles outdoors for the purpose of: 1-11 (A) selling the vehicles whole; or 1-12 (B) dismantling or otherwise wrecking the 1-13 vehicles to remove parts for sale or for use in an automotive 1-14 repair or rebuilding business. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2764 was passed by the House on May 4, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2764 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor