Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2572 amends the Local Government Code to provide that if a municipality having a population of 250,000 or less that owns land within 5,000 feet of where the shoreline of a lake would be if the lake were filled to capacity, sells any such land, the property is not eligible for and the owner is not entitled to the permit exemption under the Water Code for construction of a dam or reservoir that stores no more than 200 acre feet of water and is used for domestic or livestock purposes. The act requires any instrument conveying such property to include a provision stating that the permit exemption does not apply to the land conveyed.