1-1     By:  Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                H.B. No. 2764
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 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 the authority of a county to regulate automotive
1-10     wrecking and salvage yards.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 238.001(1), Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14                 (1)  "Automotive wrecking and salvage yard" means a
1-15     business other than a business classified as a salvage pool
1-16     operator under Article 6687-1a, Revised Statutes, that stores three
1-17     or more wrecked vehicles outdoors for the purpose of:
1-18                       (A)  selling the vehicles whole; or
1-19                       (B)  dismantling or otherwise wrecking the
1-20     vehicles to remove parts for sale or for use in an automotive
1-21     repair or rebuilding business.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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