Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Second Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature Page: 44
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44 SEATE JURNAL
a misdemeanor for a violation of
Section 5, Section 6 or Section 7 of
this Act shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding two hundred
($200.00) dollars.
Sec. 9. The fact that annual mo-
tor vehicle registration and license
fees are now required to be made
each year in January, and that many
other taxes, State, county and city,
fall due in that month, thus placing
an unduly heavy tax burden on the
taxpayers in that month, and the
further fact that many owners of
motor vehicles were not able this
year to pay the annual fees before
date of accrual of penalty, create
an emergency and an imperative
public necessity that the constitu-
tional rule requiring bills be read
on three several days in each House
be suspended in order that this Act
shall take effect and be in full force
and effect from and after its pas-
sage, and said rule is hereby sus-
pended, and it is so enacted.
The amendment was adopted.
Senator Poage offered the follow-
ing amendment to the amendment:
Amend substitute to H. B. No. 6,
by adding thereto the following:
Sec. 3. Beginning with the motor
vehicle registration year, beginning
April 1, 1935, and for every year
thereafter, all license fees shall be
reduced by twenty per cent (20%)
Gross Weight
in pounds
1- 6,000
6,001- 8,000
8,001-10,000 ------------------
10,0 01-12,000
12,001-14,000
14,001-16,000 ------------------
16,001-22,000 -
22,001-26,000
26,001-and up
The term gross weight as used in
this section shall mean the actual
weight of the vehicle fully equipped
with body and otehr equipment, as
certified by any official public
weigher or any license and weight
inspector of the State Highway De-
partment, plus its net carrying ca-
pacity. "Net carrying capacity" of
any vehicle, except a bus, as used infrom the amount of the present fees
as now fixed by the statutes of this
State.
Sec. 4. From and after January 1,
1935, Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 8-a of
Chapter 88 of the General Laws of
the Second Called Session of the
Forty-first Legislature shall read as
follows:
"Sec. 5. The annual license fee
for the registration of a motorcycle
shall be Four ($4.00) Dollars, and
for each side-car Two and 40/100
(2.40) Dollars.
The annual license fee for the reg-
istration of a passenger car shall be
based upon the weight of a vehicle
as follows:
- Fee per 100 pounds
Weight in or fraction
pounds thereof
1-2000 ----------------$ 4.50
2001-3500 ____------- 10.10
3501-4500 ----------------- 17.30
4501 and up ---------------- 18.00
The weight of any passenger car,
for purposes of registration shall be
the weight generally accepted as its
correct shipping weight plus one
hundred pounds.
Sec. 6. The annual license fee for
the registration of a commercial mo-
tor vehicle or truck-tractor shall be
based upon the gross weight and tire
equipment of the vehicle as follows:
Fee per 100 pounds or fraction
thereof
Equipped with Equipped with
Pneumatic Solid Rubber
Tires Tires
__ $ 19.20 $ 24.00
32.00 38.40
48.00 56.00
67.20 86.40
89.60 112.00
115.20 153.60
-. 183.10 264.00
332.80 416.00
- 832.00 1,040.00
this section shall be the weight of
the heaviest net load to be carried on
the vehicle being registered; pro-
vided said net carrying capacity shall
in no case be less than the manufac-
turer's rated carrying capacity. "The
net carrying capacity of a bus as de-
fined in this Act shall be computed
by multiplying its seating capacity
by 150 pounds. The seating capacity44
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