By Solomons H.B. No. 2764 76R8073 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 that stores three or more wrecked vehicles outdoors for 1-9 the purpose of: 1-10 (A) selling the vehicles whole; or 1-11 (B) dismantling or otherwise wrecking the 1-12 vehicles to remove parts for sale or for use in an automotive 1-13 repair or rebuilding business. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.