By: Harless (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1522
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2007;
  April 26, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation and Homeland Security; May 17, 2007, reported
  adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1522 By:  Nichols
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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 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.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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