Bill Text: TX SB1053 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the notice provided to an owner or lienholder of a vehicle towed to a vehicle storage facility or provided to an owner or operator of a vehicle by a parking facility owner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1053 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1053-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 1053

AN ACT
relating to the notice provided to an owner or lienholder of a
vehicle towed to a vehicle storage facility or provided to an owner
or operator of a vehicle by a parking facility owner.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 2303.153, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A notice by mail provided under Section 2303.151 must
include:
(1) the date the vehicle was accepted for storage;
(2) the first day for which a storage fee is assessed;
(3) the daily storage rate;
(4) the type and amount of any other charge to be paid
when the vehicle is claimed;
(5) the full name, street address, and telephone
number of the vehicle storage facility;
(6) the hours during which the owner may claim the
vehicle; and
(7) the facility license number preceded by "Texas
Department of Licensing and Regulation [Transportation] Vehicle
Storage Facility License Number[.]" or "TDLR VSF Lic. No."
SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 2308.252, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) A parking facility owner is considered to have given
notice under Subsection (a)(3) if:
(1) a conspicuous notice has been attached to the
vehicle's front windshield or, if the vehicle has no front
windshield, to a conspicuous part of the vehicle stating:
(A) that the vehicle is in a parking space in
which the vehicle is not authorized to be parked;
(B) a description of all other unauthorized areas
in the parking facility;
(C) that the vehicle will be towed at the expense
of the owner or operator of the vehicle if it remains in an
unauthorized area of the parking facility; and
(D) a telephone number that is answered 24 hours
a day to enable the owner or operator of the vehicle to locate the
vehicle; and
(2) a notice is mailed after the notice is attached to
the vehicle as provided by Subdivision (1) to the owner of the
vehicle by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the last
address shown for the owner according to the vehicle registration
records of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles [Transportation],
or if the vehicle is registered in another state, the appropriate
agency of that state.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a notice mailed on or after September 1, 2013. A notice mailed
before September 1, 2013, is governed by the law in effect
immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1053 passed the Senate on
April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2013, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1053 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor