By: Carriker S.B. No. 196
73R2255 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the residency and certain duties of public weighers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13.252, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-6 (c) An appointed county public weigher is not required to
1-7 reside in the county for which the public weigher is appointed.
1-8 SECTION 2. Section 13.254, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-9 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-10 (c) A deputy county public weigher is not required to live
1-11 in the county for which the deputy county public weigher is
1-12 appointed.
1-13 SECTION 3. Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 13.257. Recording of Weights and Measures. (a) On
1-16 each certificate of weight or measure that a public weigher or
1-17 deputy public weigher issues, the public weigher or deputy public
1-18 weigher shall include the:
1-19 (1) time and date that the weight or measurement was
1-20 taken;
1-21 (2) signature of the public weigher or deputy public
1-22 weigher; and
1-23 (3) seal of the department.
1-24 (b) A public weigher shall retain in a well-bound book a
2-1 copy of each certificate <all certificates of weight or measure
2-2 that the public weigher or the weigher's deputy issues>. The
2-3 department and members of the general public may inspect the record
2-4 on request.
2-5 SECTION 4. (a) The certificate requirements imposed by
2-6 Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, apply
2-7 only to a certificate issued on or after the effective date of this
2-8 Act.
2-9 (b) A certificate issued before the effective date of this
2-10 Act is governed by Section 13.257, Agriculture Code, as it existed
2-11 before amendment by this Act, and that law is continued in effect
2-12 for this purpose.
2-13 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-14 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.