By Culberson H.B. No. 2996 76R10337 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to use of certain devices to prevent operation of 1-3 improperly parked vehicles. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 684, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 684.016 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 684.016. PROHIBITION ON USE OF CERTAIN DEVICES. A 1-8 person may not attach to an unauthorized vehicle located on a 1-9 parking facility a device intended to prevent the operation of the 1-10 vehicle, unless a sign is installed on the parking facility that 1-11 states that a device intended to prevent the operation of a vehicle 1-12 may be attached to an unauthorized vehicle located on the facility. 1-13 The sign must be installed in each location required for a sign 1-14 under Section 684.031(a), 684.034, or 684.035, as appropriate. The 1-15 sign may be installed on the same pole, post, wall, or barrier as a 1-16 sign under Subchapter C. 1-17 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-18 to attachment of a device to a vehicle on or after the effective 1-19 date of this Act. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.