By Culberson                                          H.B. No. 2996
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                                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.