Bill Text: TX SB1917 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1917-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1917-Engrossed.html
By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 1917 |
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relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Section 541.201, | ||
Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Authorized emergency vehicle" means: | ||
(A) a fire department or police vehicle; | ||
(B) a public or private ambulance operated by a | ||
person who has been issued a license by the [ |
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State Health Services; | ||
(C) a municipal department or public service | ||
corporation emergency vehicle that has been designated or | ||
authorized by the governing body of a municipality; | ||
(D) a private vehicle of a volunteer firefighter | ||
or a certified emergency medical services employee or volunteer | ||
when responding to a fire alarm or medical emergency; | ||
(E) an industrial emergency response vehicle, | ||
including an industrial ambulance, when responding to an emergency, | ||
but only if the vehicle is operated in compliance with criteria in | ||
effect September 1, 1989, and established by the predecessor of the | ||
Texas Industrial Emergency Services Board of the State Firemen's | ||
and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas; | ||
(F) a vehicle of a blood bank or tissue bank, | ||
accredited or approved under the laws of this state or the United | ||
States, when making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs, | ||
medicines, or organs; [ |
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(G) a vehicle used for law enforcement purposes | ||
that is owned or leased by a federal governmental entity; or | ||
(H) a private vehicle of an employee or volunteer | ||
of a county emergency management division in a county with a | ||
population of more than 46,500 and less than 48,000 that is | ||
designated as an authorized emergency vehicle by the commissioners | ||
court of that county. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |