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Senate Bill 552 |
Senate Author: Uresti |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: Nevarez |
Current law sets out certain newspaper notice requirements for an application filed with a county commissioners court for permission to revise a subdivision plat applicable to real property located outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities with a population of 1.5 million or more and to real property subject to platting requirements in certain counties near an international border. Senate Bill 552 amends the Local Government Code to exempt an application from such requirements if the commissioners court determines that the revision to the subdivision plat does not affect a public interest or public property of any type and to instead provide only for notice to the owners of neighboring lots and, if applicable, posting of the notice on the county's website. The bill authorizes a commissioners court to impose a fee for filing an application to revise a subdivision plat and requires the amount of the fee to be based on the cost of processing the application.