By: Callegari (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 864

(In the Senate - Received from the House March 14, 2007; April 3, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 2, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 2, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a garagekeeper's duty to report the abandonment of a motor vehicle.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 683.031(c), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) The garagekeeper shall report the abandonment of the motor vehicle to a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction where the vehicle is located [or to the Department of Public Safety] and shall pay a $10 fee to be used by the law enforcement agency for the cost of the notice required by this subchapter or other cost incurred in disposing of the vehicle. [A fee paid to the Department of Public Safety shall be used to administer this chapter.]

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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