Bill Text: TX HB914 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipal employees to request the removal and storage of certain abandoned or illegally parked vehicles.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB914 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB914-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipal employees to request the removal and storage of certain abandoned or illegally parked vehicles.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB914 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB914-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hernandez (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | H.B. No. 914 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2021; | ||
April 19, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Business & Commerce; May 13, 2021, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 13, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the authority of certain municipal employees to request | ||
the removal and storage of certain abandoned or illegally parked | ||
vehicles. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2308.354, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2308.354. AUTHORITY FOR REMOVAL OF VEHICLE FROM PUBLIC | ||
ROADWAY. (a) Under an ordinance of a municipality regulating the | ||
parking of vehicles in the municipality, to aid in the enforcement | ||
of the ordinance, an employee designated by the municipality may be | ||
authorized to: | ||
(1) immobilize a vehicle parked in the municipality; | ||
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(2) remove an immobilized vehicle from a public | ||
roadway in the municipality; and | ||
(3) request the removal and storage of a vehicle that | ||
is located in an area where on-street parking is regulated by the | ||
ordinance and that: | ||
(A) is parked illegally; or | ||
(B) is parked legally and: | ||
(i) has been unattended for more than 48 | ||
hours; and | ||
(ii) the employee has reasonable grounds to | ||
believe is abandoned. | ||
(b) A parking facility owner or towing company may not | ||
remove a vehicle from a public roadway except under: | ||
(1) this chapter or a municipal ordinance that | ||
complies with Section 2308.208; or | ||
(2) the direction of a peace officer, a municipal | ||
employee under Subsection (a)(3), or the owner or operator of the | ||
vehicle. | ||
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vehicle owned by an electric, gas, water, or telecommunications | ||
utility while the vehicle is parked for the purpose of conducting | ||
work on a facility of the utility that is located below, above, or | ||
adjacent to the street. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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