Bill Text: TX HB714 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 714 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Not again placed on intent calendar [HB714 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB714-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Wu, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Miles)	H.B. No. 714
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017;
	May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Intergovernmental Relations; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by
	the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 2; May 18, 2017, sent to
	printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain
	municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 601.001, Local Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 601.001. PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. (a) A
	municipality by ordinance may regulate the parking of motor
	vehicles on private property and may enforce the ordinance in the
	same manner that it enforces ordinances regulating parking in
	public no-parking zones, including the impoundment of offending
	vehicles.
	(b) As provided by Chapter 682, Transportation Code, a
	municipality with a population of 1.9 million or more may:
	(1) declare the violation of a municipal ordinance
	relating to the parking of an unattended motor vehicle in the front
	or side yard of a single-family residence in a residential area to
	be a civil offense; and
	(2) by ordinance establish an administrative
	adjudication hearing procedure under which a civil fine may be
	imposed.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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