By Carona                                              S.B. No. 688
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to declaring a junked motor vehicle a nuisance.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 683.074, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-6           (g)  The procedures may provide that the relocation of a
 1-7     junked vehicle that is a public nuisance to another location in the
 1-8     same municipality or county after a proceeding for the abatement
 1-9     and removal of the public nuisance has commenced has no effect on
1-10     the proceeding if the junked vehicle constitutes a public nuisance
1-11     at the new location.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.