Bill Text: TX HB356 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the notice required to remove a vehicle with an expired registration or inspection certificate from certain private property.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB356 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB356-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 356 | |
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| relating to the notice required to remove a vehicle with an expired | ||
| registration or inspection certificate from certain private | ||
| property. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2308.253, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (e-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (e) A contract provision providing for the removal from a | ||
| parking facility of a vehicle that does not display an unexpired | ||
| license plate or registration insignia or a valid inspection | ||
| certificate is valid only if the provision requires the owner or | ||
| operator of the vehicle to be given at least 10 days' written notice | ||
| that the vehicle will be towed from the facility at the vehicle | ||
| owner's or operator's expense if it is not removed from the parking | ||
| facility. The notice must be: | ||
| (1) delivered in person to the owner or operator of the | ||
| vehicle; [ |
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| (2) sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, | ||
| to that owner or operator; or | ||
| (3) attached in a conspicuous manner to the vehicle's | ||
| front windshield or, if the vehicle does not have a front | ||
| windshield, to an easily visible part of the vehicle. | ||
| (e-1) A notice provided in the manner described by | ||
| Subsection (e)(3) must state, as applicable, that the vehicle does | ||
| not have: | ||
| (1) an unexpired license plate or registration | ||
| insignia issued for the vehicle under Chapter 502, Transportation | ||
| Code, or under the vehicle registration law of another state or | ||
| country; or | ||
| (2) a valid inspection certificate issued under | ||
| Chapter 548, Transportation Code, or under the vehicle inspection | ||
| law of another state or country. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2308.253(e), Occupations Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies only to a contract, including a lease | ||
| or rental agreement, entered into on or after the effective date of | ||
| this Act. A contract entered into before that date is governed by | ||
| the law in effect on the date the contract was entered into, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2014. | ||
