S.B. No. 249
AN ACT
1-1 relating to sewer connections in municipalities.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 214.013, Local Government
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) A <home rule> municipality may:
1-6 (1) provide for a sanitary sewer system; and
1-7 (2) require property owners to connect to the sewer
1-8 system.
1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.