TITLE: Relating to procedures regarding the removal and storage of vehicles.

SUMMARY: Relating to procedures regarding the removal and storage of vehicles.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to procedures regarding the removal and storage of vehicles. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 2303.154(a), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) If a vehicle is not claimed by a person permitted to claim the vehicle [or is not taken into custody by a law enforcement agency under Chapter 683, Transportation Code] before the 10th [41st] day after the date notice is mailed or published under Section 2303.151 or 2303.152, the operator of the vehicle storage facility shall consider the vehicle to be abandoned and: (1) send a second notice to the registered owner and the primary lienholder of the vehicle;and (2) send a report of abandonment to a law enforcement agency under Chapter 683, Transportation Code.SECTION 2. Section 2303.154(a-1), Occupations Code, is repealed. SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section 2303.154, Occupations Code, apply only to a vehicle received in storage on or after the effective date of this Act. A vehicle received in storage before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the vehicle was received by the facility, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.