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. 1-25 * * * * *