By: Menendez (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 384
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011;
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 19, 2011, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2011,
sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the proper identification of boats and outboard motors;
creating an offense.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.033, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) No person may display on a vessel a registration decal
that is altered, fraudulent, or issued under a certificate of
number assigned to another vessel.
SECTION 2. Section 31.043, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) No person may intentionally sell, offer to sell, or
purchase a vessel with a hull identification number, or an outboard
motor with a serial number, that has been altered, defaced,
mutilated, or removed.
SECTION 3. Section 31.127(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A person who violates Section 31.043(c) or 31.096 [of
this code] commits an offense that is a Class B Parks and Wildlife
Code misdemeanor. A person who violates Section 31.043(c-1)
commits an offense that is a Class A Parks and Wildlife Code
misdemeanor.
SECTION 4. 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, 2011.
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