Bill Text: TX HB3769 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to impose a civil penalty on owners of certain motor vehicles parked on a highway under the jurisdiction of the municipality that do not display a valid registration insignia or inspection certificate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-17 - No action taken in committee [HB3769 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3769-Comm_Sub.html
  83R24064 JTS-F
 
  By: Coleman H.B. No. 3769
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3769:
 
  By:  Dutton C.S.H.B. No. 3769
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a municipality to impose a civil
  penalty on owners of certain motor vehicles parked on a highway
  under the jurisdiction of the municipality that do not display a
  valid registration insignia or inspection certificate.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 502.003, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
  follows:
         (b)  This section does not affect the authority of a
  municipality to:
               (1)  license and regulate the use of motor vehicles for
  compensation within the municipal limits; [and]
               (2)  impose a permit fee or street rental charge for the
  operation of each motor vehicle used to transport passengers for
  compensation, other than a motor vehicle operating under a
  registration certificate from the department or a permit from the
  federal Surface Transportation Board; and
               (3)  except as provided by Subsection (b-1), impose, in
  addition to a criminal penalty, a civil penalty on the owner of a
  motor vehicle that:
                     (A)  displays a license plate issued by the
  department;
                     (B)  is parked on a highway under the jurisdiction
  of the municipality; and
                     (C)  does not display a valid registration
  insignia issued by the department.
         (b-1)  A civil penalty under Subsection (b)(3) may be
  enforced only by a person designated by the municipality
  specifically to enforce parking violations.
         SECTION 2.  Section 548.602, Transportation Code, is amended
  by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) and amending Subsection (c)
  to read as follows:
         (b-1)  The governing body of a municipality may enact an
  ordinance that allows the municipality to impose, in addition to a
  criminal penalty, a civil penalty on the owner of a motor vehicle
  that:
               (1)  displays a license plate issued by the Texas
  Department of Motor Vehicles;
               (2)  is parked on a highway under the jurisdiction of
  the municipality; and
               (3)  does not display a valid inspection certificate
  issued under this chapter.
         (b-2)  A civil penalty under Subsection (b-1) may be enforced
  only by a person designated by the municipality specifically to
  enforce parking violations.
         (c)  It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(1)
  or to the imposition of a civil penalty that an inspection
  certificate for the vehicle is in effect at the time of the arrest.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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