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.