Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 1833 amends the Local Government Code and the Transportation Code to allow a municipality by ordinance to adopt, as an alternative to quasi-judicial enforcement of health and safety ordinances, a procedure for an administrative adjudication hearing under which an administrative penalty may be imposed for violation of those ordinances. The bill amends the Local Government Code to require a municipality to exercise due diligence to determine the identity of a property owner or lien holder when providing notice of proceedings before a building and standards commission panel or when searching certain records relating to the property, and it requires a majority of a commission panel to hear and vote on a case. The bill exempts certain offenses for building and zoning ordinance violations that have been joined or consolidated for trial from a defendant's right to severance of those offenses. The bill allows a municipality to adopt an ordinance regarding substandard buildings that applies to property that has been seized and bid off to the municipality in a foreclosure of a tax lien.

            House Bill 1833 amends the Health and Safety Code to allow the posting of notice of a violation of a municipal ordinance by means of a placard on a stake on the property to which the violation relates regardless of whether there are any buildings on the property.

            House Bill 1833 amends the Government Code to add that a birth or death record is available to the chief executive officer of a home-rule municipality for certain identification purposes when enforcing a state statute or a municipal health and safety ordinance.

            House Bill 1833 modifies certain provisions to provide the option of personal delivery and certified mailing of certain documents by a municipality.