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CITY OF HOUSTON - CITY COUNCIL

Meeting Date: 10/13/2015

Item Creation Date:

WRITTEN MOTION Sec. 46-7

Agenda Item#: 60.


 
                               
Summary:

WRITTEN Motion by Council Member Martin to amend Section 46-7 of Item 61 below:

(a)  Upon initial application for a license and at license renewal intervals stated in this chapter, the director shall cause the criminal history of each designated as a driver in an application for a license to be researched. Each person designated as a driver in an application shall complete any forms required for the director to obtain the report, and the applicant shall present the required completed forms to the director and shall bear the cost to cover any fees imposed by state or federal agencies for the report. The provision of this requirement shall not be construed to preclude the director from obtaining interim reports at the expense of the city.

(b)  An applicant who has met the other requirements of this chapter may be provisionally authorized to drive for a permittee if the permittee has caused the criminal history of the applicant to be researched by a company approved by the director, and such search discloses that the applicant has no convictions of any applicable offense listed in section 1-10 of this Code. Such a search shall include a national criminal history database and a national sex offender database. Drivers provisionally authorized pursuant to this subsection shall be required to comply with the requirements of section 46-6 (c) within 30 days of being provisionally authorized by the permittee.”

 TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS DAVIS, LASTER, MARTIN and STARDIG