S.B. No. 196
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the residency and certain duties of public weighers.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 13.252, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-4 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-5 (c) An appointed county public weigher is not required to
1-6 reside in the county for which the public weigher is appointed.
1-7 SECTION 2. Section 13.254, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-8 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-9 (c) A deputy county public weigher is not required to live
1-10 in the county for which the deputy county public weigher is
1-11 appointed.
1-12 SECTION 3. Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 13.257. Recording of Weights and Measures. (a) On
1-15 each certificate of weight or measure that a public weigher or
1-16 deputy public weigher issues, the public weigher or deputy public
1-17 weigher shall include the:
1-18 (1) time and date that the weight or measurement was
1-19 taken;
1-20 (2) signature and license number of the public weigher
1-21 or deputy public weigher; and
1-22 (3) seal of the department.
1-23 (b) A public weigher shall retain in a well-bound book a
1-24 copy of each certificate <all certificates of weight or measure
2-1 that the public weigher or the weigher's deputy issues>. The
2-2 department and members of the general public may inspect the record
2-3 on request.
2-4 SECTION 4. (a) The certificate requirements imposed by
2-5 Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, apply
2-6 only to a certificate issued on or after the effective date of this
2-7 Act.
2-8 (b) A certificate issued before the effective date of this
2-9 Act is governed by Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, as it existed
2-10 before amendment by this Act, and that law is continued in effect
2-11 for this purpose.
2-12 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-13 SECTION 6. 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.