H.B. No. 1522
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to parking a commercial motor vehicle on certain streets.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 545.307, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 545.307.  OVERNIGHT PARKING OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
  IN OR NEAR RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION.
         SECTION 2.  Section 545.307, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsections (b-1)
  and (h) to read as follows:
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), after [After] 10
  p.m. and before 6 a.m., a person may not park a commercial motor
  vehicle or leave the vehicle parked on a street that is maintained
  by a county or municipality and [of a residential subdivision] for
  which signs are posted as provided by Subsection (c) if the street:
               (1)  is located within a residential subdivision; or
               (2)  is adjacent to a residential subdivision and
  within 1,000 feet of the property line of a residence, school, place
  of worship, or park.
         (b-1)  A person may park a commercial motor vehicle or leave
  the vehicle parked on a street for which signs are posted as
  provided by Subsection (c) if [unless] the commercial motor
  vehicle:
               (1)  is transporting persons or property to or from the
  residential subdivision or performing work in the subdivision; and
               (2)  remains parked in or adjacent to the subdivision
  only for the period necessary to complete the transportation or
  work.
         (c)  The residents of a residential subdivision may petition
  a county or municipality in which the subdivision is located for the
  posting of signs prohibiting the overnight parking of a commercial
  motor vehicle in the subdivision or on a street adjacent to the
  subdivision and within 1,000 feet of the property line of a
  residence, school, place of worship, or park. The petition must be
  signed by at least 25 percent of the owners or tenants of residences
  in the subdivision. Not more than one person for each residence may
  sign the petition, and each person signing must be at least 18 years
  of age. Promptly after the filing of a petition meeting the
  requirements of this subsection and subject to Subsection (d), the
  county or municipality receiving the petition shall post the signs.
  The signs must:
               (1)  be posted:
                     (A)  at each entrance of the subdivision through
  which a commercial motor vehicle may enter the subdivision or
  within the subdivision if there is not defined entrance to the
  subdivision; or
                     (B)  on a street adjacent to the subdivision; and
               (2)  state, in letters at least two inches in height,
  that overnight parking of a commercial motor vehicle is prohibited
  in the subdivision or on a street adjacent to the subdivision.
         (h)  This section does not apply to:
               (1)  a vehicle owned by a utility that an employee of
  the utility who is on call 24 hours a day parks at the employee's
  residence; or
               (2)  a vehicle owned by a commercial establishment that
  is parked on the street adjacent to where the establishment is
  located.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1522 was passed by the House on April
  19, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
  H.B. No. 1522 on May 23, 2007, and requested the appointment of a
  conference committee to consider the differences between the two
  houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
  on H.B. No. 1522 on May 27, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 145,
  Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1522 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 21, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
  committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
  that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
  1522 on May 26, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor