82R9738 TJB-D
 
  By: Mallory Caraway H.B. No. 2850
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a prohibition on the sale or transfer of certain law
  enforcement vehicles before removal of certain equipment and
  insignia.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 341, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 341.9045 to read as follows:
         Sec. 341.9045.  SALE OR TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE.
  A municipality may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other
  municipal law enforcement motor vehicle to the public unless the
  municipality first removes any equipment or insignia that could
  mislead a reasonable person to believe that the vehicle is a law
  enforcement motor vehicle, including any police light, siren, amber
  warning light, spotlight, grill light, antenna, emblem, outline of
  an emblem, and emergency vehicle equipment.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 351.905 to read as follows:
         Sec. 351.905.  SALE OR TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE.
  A county may not sell or transfer a marked patrol car or other
  county law enforcement motor vehicle to the public unless the
  county first removes any equipment or insignia that could mislead a
  reasonable person to believe that the vehicle is a law enforcement
  motor vehicle, including any police light, siren, amber warning
  light, spotlight, grill light, antenna, emblem, outline of an
  emblem, and emergency vehicle equipment.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.