By:  Dutton                                            H.B. No. 825
       73R3300 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a municipality to correct certain
    1-3  violations of municipal sanitation regulations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 342.006, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The municipality in the notice of a violation may inform
    1-8  the owner that if the owner commits another violation on or before
    1-9  the first anniversary of the date of the notice, the municipality
   1-10  without further notice may correct the violation at the owner's
   1-11  expense and assess the expense against the property.  If a
   1-12  violation covered by a notice under this subsection occurs within
   1-13  the one-year period, the municipality without notice may take any
   1-14  action permitted by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) and assess its
   1-15  expenses as provided by Section 342.007.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.