By: Ellis S.B. No. 350

(In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2007; February 21, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; February 28, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; February 28, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a request for a public hearing before requiring the abatement of certain nuisances.

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

SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 683.074, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The procedures must:

(1) prohibit a vehicle from being reconstructed or made operable after removal;

(2) require a public hearing on request of a person who receives notice as provided by Section 683.075 if the request is made not later than the date by which the nuisance must be abated and removed [before removal of the public nuisance]; and

(3) require that notice identifying the vehicle or part of the vehicle be given to the department not later than the fifth day after the date of removal.

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

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