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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the use of safety guards or flaps on certain buses. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 547.606, Transportation Code, is amended |
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by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as |
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follows: |
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(a) This section applies only to: |
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(1) a school bus, a school activity bus, or a |
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multifunctional school activity bus operating outside the |
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boundaries of a municipality; or |
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(2) a [A] road tractor, truck, trailer, truck-tractor |
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in combination with a semitrailer, or semitrailer in combination |
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with a towing vehicle that has at least four tires on the rearmost |
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axle of the vehicle or the rearmost vehicle in the combination. |
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(a-1) A vehicle described by Subsection (a) shall be |
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equipped with safety guards or flaps that: |
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(1) are of a type prescribed by the department; and |
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(2) are located and suspended behind the rearmost |
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wheels of the vehicle or the rearmost vehicle in the combination |
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within eight inches of the surface of the highway. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |