By Pickett H.B. No. 3466
76R5220 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to salvage vehicle dealers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 1.01(8) and (17), Article 6687-1a,
1-5 Revised Statutes, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (8) "Motor vehicle" has the meaning assigned by
1-7 Section 501.002, Transportation Code [the Uniform Act Regulating
1-8 Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-9 Statutes)].
1-10 (17) "Salvage vehicle dealer" means a person who is
1-11 engaged in this state in the business of acquiring, selling, or
1-12 otherwise dealing in salvage vehicles or salvage vehicle parts [of
1-13 a type required to be covered by a salvage vehicle certificate of
1-14 title or nonrepairable vehicle certificate of title under a license
1-15 issued by the department that allows the holder of the license to
1-16 acquire, sell, dismantle, repair, or otherwise deal in salvage
1-17 vehicles].
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 1(a)(8), Chapter 506, Acts of the 57th
1-19 Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 6687-2, Vernon's Texas
1-20 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-21 (8) "Motor vehicle" has the meaning assigned by
1-22 Section 501.002, Transportation Code [given by Subsection (b),
1-23 Section 2, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article
1-24 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)].
2-1 SECTION 3. Section 1(e), Chapter 506, Acts of the 57th
2-2 Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 6687-2, Vernon's Texas
2-3 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-4 (e) In lieu of the requirements contained in Subsection (c)
2-5 of this section, a salvage vehicle dealer may record the name of
2-6 the business that the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part is
2-7 purchased from and the Texas Certificate of Inventory number,
2-8 salvage vehicle dealer number, or federal taxpayer identification
2-9 number.
2-10 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.