81R13406 JD-D
By: Farabee H.B. No. 869
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the stopping, standing, or parking of certain vehicles
on a highway.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 545.301(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) This section does not apply to an operator of:
(1) a vehicle that is disabled while on the paved or
main traveled part of a highway if it is impossible to avoid
stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle on the highway;
(2) a vehicle owned by the Texas Department of
Transportation, a county, a municipality, or another political
subdivision of this state operated at the time in connection with
the construction, maintenance, or repair of the highway;
(3) a vehicle owned by a public or private electric,
water, sewer, natural gas, solid waste disposal, or drainage
utility operated at the time in connection with the construction,
maintenance, or repair of property or a facility of the utility;
(4) a vehicle used exclusively to transport solid,
semisolid, or liquid waste operated at the time in connection with
the removal or transportation of solid, semisolid, or liquid waste
from a location adjacent to the highway;
(5) a tow truck, as defined by Section 504.508,
operated at the time in connection with the removal from the highway
of a vehicle described by Subdivision (1);
(6) a vehicle owned by the United States Postal
Service or any other person operated at the time in connection with
the delivery of mail;
(7) a vehicle owned by a commercial courier operated
at the time in connection with the delivery of parcels;
(8) a vehicle owned by a telecommunications provider,
as defined by Section 51.002, Utilities Code, operated at the time
in connection with the construction, maintenance, or repair of
property or a facility of the provider; or
(9) a vehicle owned by a cable service provider or a
video service provider, as defined by Section 66.002, Utilities
Code, operated at the time in connection with the construction,
maintenance, or repair of property or a facility of the provider.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.