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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the stopping, standing, or parking of certain vehicles |
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on a highway. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 545.301(b), Transportation Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(b) This section does not apply to an operator of: |
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(1) a vehicle that is disabled while on the paved or |
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main traveled part of a highway if it is impossible to avoid |
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stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle on the highway; |
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(2) a vehicle owned by the Texas Department of |
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Transportation, a county, a municipality, or other political |
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subdivision of this state operated at the time in connection with |
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the construction, maintenance, or repair of the highway; |
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(3) a vehicle owned by a public or private electric, |
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water, sewer, natural gas, solid waste disposal, or drainage |
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utility operated at the time in connection with the construction, |
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maintenance, or repair of property or a facility of the utility; |
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(4) a vehicle used exclusively to transport solid, |
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semisolid, or liquid waste operated at the time in connection with |
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the removal or transportation of solid, semisolid, or liquid waste |
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from a location adjacent to the highway; or |
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(5) a tow truck, as defined by Section 504.508, |
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operated at the time in connection with the removal from the highway |
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of a vehicle described by Subdivision (1). |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |