Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 873 amends the Local Government Code to authorize the commissioners courts in certain urban counties, after publishing an order in a newspaper to adopt rules governing plats and subdivisions of land in the unincorporated areas of those counties, to promote appropriate development and infrastructure planning in such areas. The bill allows those commissioners courts to require adequate rights-of-way on major thoroughfares, to adopt reasonable standards relating to lot frontages and set-backs, and to impose requirements relating to the connection of utilities. The bill also authorizes the commissioners courts to contract with a developer of a subdivision or land in an unincorporated area to construct certain public improvements related to a development and exempts a such contract from the requirements of a competitive sealed bidding procedure if the contract meets certain other requirements.