By Oliveira H.B. No. 496
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to platting requirements.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 212.004(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The owner of a tract of land located within the limits
1-7 or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality who
1-8 divides the tract in two or more parts or combines lots to lay out
1-9 a subdivision or resubdivision of the tract, including an addition
1-10 to a municipality, or to lay out <suburban,> building<,> or other
1-11 lots, or <and> to lay out streets, alleys, squares, parks, or other
1-12 parts of the tract intended to be dedicated to public use or for
1-13 the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting on or adjacent to
1-14 the streets, alleys, squares, parks, or other parts must have a
1-15 plat of the subdivision prepared. A division of a tract under this
1-16 subsection includes a division regardless of whether it is made by
1-17 using a metes and bounds description in a deed of conveyance or in
1-18 a contract for a deed, by using a contract of sale or other
1-19 executory contract to convey, or by using any other method.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.