Texas Government Code - Section 411.063. Rules Relating To Parking And Vehicles
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§ 411.063. RULES RELATING TO PARKING AND VEHICLES. (a)
The State Preservation Board shall adopt rules for the safe
movement and the parking of vehicles in the Capitol Complex. The
department shall administer and enforce the rules adopted by the
preservation board and shall administer and enforce this
subchapter. This subsection does not affect the authority of the
department to adopt rules under Section 411.067.
(b) Rules adopted under this section may:
(1) regulate the type, flow, and direction of
vehicular traffic;
(2) designate, mark, and assign areas and spaces for
parking for elected state officials, chief executives and employees
of state agencies located in the Capitol Complex, state-owned
vehicles, business vehicles, and visitors to the Capitol Complex;
(3) establish a system of registration for vehicle
identification;
(4) prohibit or restrict the use of areas and spaces
for parking;
(5) establish a reasonable fee for parking in a
parking space on a parking lot or in a parking garage that is
located in the Capitol Complex, other than a space in the capitol
driveway or capitol extension garage; and
(6) provide for the towing and storing, at the expense
of the owner, of a vehicle parked in violation of a rule.
(c) Rules that govern parking in the parking spaces in the
capitol driveways and the parking lots and parking garages near the
capitol, to the extent that parking in such places is not otherwise
regulated by the State Preservation Board, shall provide for:
(1) assigning and marking reserved parking spaces for
the unrestricted use of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker
of the house of representatives, and secretary of state;
(2) when the legislature is in session, assigning and
marking reserved parking spaces requested by each house of the
legislature for the unrestricted use of members and administrative
staff of the legislature; and
(3) when the legislature is not in session, assigning
and marking parking spaces requested by each house of the
legislature for the use of members and administrative staff of the
legislature.
(d) Except as provided by Section 443.015, the department
shall remit to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of State
Parking Fund No. 125 any fee collected for the parking of a vehicle
in the Capitol Complex. Money in the fund may be appropriated only
to the department for the operation, maintenance, and improvement
of state parking facilities on, and for security in, the Capitol
Complex.
(e) To the extent that the City of Austin on January 1, 1997,
operated and maintained parking meters along either side of the
streets forming the perimeter of the Capitol Complex, the city is
entitled to continue to operate, maintain, and receive the revenue
from those meters, except that the city may not operate or maintain
along those streets meters that accept only quarters.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 790, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 270, § 5, eff. May 26, 1997;
Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1462, § 6, eff. June 17, 2001.
Section: 411.046 411.047 411.048 411.050 411.051 411.061 411.062 411.063 411.064 411.0645 411.065 411.066 411.067 411.081 411.082
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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