1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 688
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; March 1, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to declaring a junked motor vehicle a nuisance.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 683.074, Transportation Code, is amended
1-11     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-12           (g)  The procedures may provide that the relocation of a
1-13     junked vehicle that is a public nuisance to another location in the
1-14     same municipality or county after a proceeding for the abatement
1-15     and removal of the public nuisance has commenced has no effect on
1-16     the proceeding if the junked vehicle constitutes a public nuisance
1-17     at the new location.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
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