By: Hall S.B. No. 87
(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 24, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
March 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; March 15, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration of a motor vehicle alleged to have been
involved in a violation detected by a photographic traffic signal
enforcement system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 707.017, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 707.017. REGISTRATION AFTER CIVIL PENALTY IMPOSED
[ENFORCEMENT]. The [(a) If the owner of a motor vehicle is
delinquent in the payment of a civil penalty imposed under this
chapter, the] county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of
Motor Vehicles may not refuse to register a motor vehicle alleged to
have been involved in a [the] violation of this chapter solely
because the owner of the motor vehicle is delinquent in the payment
of a civil penalty imposed under this chapter.
[(b) This section does not apply to the registration of a
motor vehicle under Section 501.0234.]
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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