H.B. No. 2750 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain requirements for legal papers filed with a 1-3 county clerk. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 191.007(b), (h), and (k), Local 1-6 Government Code, are amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) A page is considered to be one side of a sheet of paper. 1-8 A page must: 1-9 (1) be no wider than 8-1/2 inches and no longer than 1-10 14 inches; 1-11 (2) have a sufficient weight and substance so that 1-12 printing, typing, or handwriting on it will not smear or bleed 1-13 through; and 1-14 (3) be printed in type not smaller than eight-point 1-15 type and be suitable otherwise for reproducing from it a readable 1-16 record by a photocopy or photostatic or microphotographic process 1-17 used in the office of the county clerk. 1-18 (h) The filing fee or recording fee for each page of a legal 1-19 paper that is presented for filing or recording to a county clerk 1-20 and fails to meet one or more of the requirements prescribed by 1-21 Subsections (b) through (g) is equal to twice the regular filing 1-22 fee or recording fee provided by statute for that page. However, 1-23 the failure of a page to meet the requirement prescribed by 2-1 Subsection (b)(3) relating to type size does not result in a fee 2-2 increase under this subsection. 2-3 (k) This section does not authorize a county clerk to refuse 2-4 to record a legal paper for the reason that it fails to meet one or 2-5 more of the requirements prescribed by Subsections (b) through (g). 2-6 Failure to comply with these requirements shall not in any manner 2-7 alter, amend, impair, or invalidate any document or legal 2-8 instrument of any type or character and upon recordation by the 2-9 county clerk the document or legal instrument shall be deemed and 2-10 considered as fully complying with the provisions of law dealing 2-11 with the recordation of documents or legal instruments of every 2-12 type and character. 2-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.