1-1     By:  Gallegos                                          S.B. No. 822
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1999; March 4, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the use of injunctions to prevent violations by
 1-9     operators of automobile wrecking and salvage yards.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 397, Transportation Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Section 397.014 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 397.014.  INJUNCTION.  (a)  A county may bring an action
1-14     for an injunction to prohibit a violation or threatened violation
1-15     of this chapter.
1-16           (b)  The venue for the injunction proceeding is in the county
1-17     in which any part of the automobile wrecking and salvage yard is
1-18     located.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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