By: Seliger  S.B. No. 526
         (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2007; February 26, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; March 15, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; March 15, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to providing that a municipality may allow a municipal
  fire marshal or arson investigator to travel in an unmarked
  municipal vehicle when performing official duties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 721.005, Transportation
  Code, as amended by Chapters 66 and 140, Acts of the 77th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The governing body of a municipality may exempt from the
  requirements of Section 721.004:
               (1)  an automobile when used to perform an official
  duty by a:
                     (A)  police department;
                     (B)  magistrate as defined by Article 2.09, Code
  of Criminal Procedure; [or]
                     (C)  medical examiner; [or]
                     (D) [(4)]  municipal code enforcement officer
  designated to enforce environmental criminal laws; or
                     (E)  municipal fire marshal or arson
  investigator; or
               (2)  an automobile used by a municipal employee only
  when conducting an investigation involving suspected fraud or other
  mismanagement within the municipality.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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