Bill Text: TX SB1297 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to creating the offense of altering a disabled parking placard.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - Referred to Transportation & Homeland Sec. [SB1297 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1297-Introduced.html
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By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 1297 |
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relating to creating the offense of altering a disabled parking | ||
placard. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 681.0111, Transportation | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 681.0111. MANUFACTURE, SALE, POSSESSION, OR USE OF | ||
COUNTERFEIT OR ALTERED PLACARD. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 681.0111(a) and (b), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if, without the department's | ||
authorization, the person: | ||
(1) manufactures, sells, or possesses a placard that | ||
is deceptively similar to a disabled parking placard; or | ||
(2) alters a genuine disabled parking placard. | ||
(b) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly | ||
parks a vehicle displaying a counterfeit or altered placard in a | ||
parking space or area designated specifically for persons with | ||
disabilities. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |