By: Brady H.B. No. 1998
73R480 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring a prosecuting attorney of a county to take
1-3 certain action to enforce the county's regulation of subdivisions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 232.005(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) At the request of the commissioners court, the county
1-8 attorney or other prosecuting attorney for the county shall <may>
1-9 file an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to:
1-10 (1) enjoin the violation or threatened violation of a
1-11 requirement established by, or adopted by the commissioners court
1-12 under a preceding section of this chapter; or
1-13 (2) recover damages in an amount adequate for the
1-14 county to undertake any construction or other activity necessary to
1-15 bring about compliance with a requirement established by, or
1-16 adopted by the commissioners court under a preceding section of
1-17 this chapter.
1-18 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-19 232.005, Local Government Code, applies only to a request by a
1-20 commissioners court made on or after the effective date of this
1-21 Act.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.