By: Rosson S.B. No. 161
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to platting requirements.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 212.004(a), Local Government Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) The owner of a tract of land located within the limits
1-6 or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality who
1-7 divides the tract in two or more parts or combines lots to lay out
1-8 a subdivision or resubdivision of the tract, including an addition
1-9 to a municipality, or to lay out < suburban,> building<,> or other
1-10 lots, or <and> to lay out streets, alleys, squares, parks, or other
1-11 parts of the tract intended to be dedicated to public use or for
1-12 the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting on or adjacent to
1-13 the streets, alleys, squares, parks, or other parts must have a
1-14 plat of the subdivision prepared. A division of a tract under this
1-15 subsection includes a division regardless of whether it is made by
1-16 using a metes and bounds description in a deed of conveyance or in
1-17 a contract for a deed, by using a contract of sale or other
1-18 executory contract to convey, or by using any other method.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.