Tex. Transp. Code § 683.013 · Subchapter B. ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES: SEIZURE AND AUCTION
STORAGE FEES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A law enforcement agency or the agent of a law enforcement agency that takes into custody an abandoned motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or outboard motor is entitled to reasonable storage fees:
(1) for not more than 10 days, beginning on the day the item is taken into custody and ending on the day the required notice is mailed; and
(2) beginning on the day after the day the agency mails notice and ending on the day accrued charges are paid and the vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or outboard motor is removed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 720 (H.B. 787), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.683.htm
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- sha256 b6cce9970e470f46e8a0a91fc72384806c9b340aea847920159e9ac077ee552b
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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