By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1021

(In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2009; March 13, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; March 30, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 30, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a prohibition on parking a commercial motor vehicle in certain residential subdivisions.

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

SECTION 1. Section 545.307, Transportation Code, is amended by amending Subsections (b) and (b-1) to read as follows:

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), after 10 p.m. and before 6 a.m., a person may not park a commercial motor vehicle or leave the vehicle parked:

(1) in a private driveway that is located in a residential subdivision; or

(2) on a street that is maintained by a county or municipality and for which signs are posted as provided by Subsection (c) if the street:

(A) [(1)] is located within a residential subdivision; or

(B) [(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 in a private driveway that is located in a residential subdivision, or on a street for which signs are posted as provided by Subsection (c) if 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.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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