By: Patterson S.B. No. 453
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the location of certain cemeteries.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Sections 711.008(d) and (e), Health and Safety
1-4 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-5 (d) Subsections (e)-(i) apply to the establishment or use of
1-6 a cemetery in a county with a population of less than 235,000 that
1-7 borders the Gulf of Mexico and in any municipality located in whole
1-8 or in part in that county.
1-9 (e) A <Not later than August 31, 1990, a> person who desires
1-10 to establish or use a cemetery shall <may> file a written
1-11 application to establish or use the cemetery if the cemetery is
1-12 located inside a municipality and 80 percent or more of the
1-13 municipality's boundaries are contiguous with the boundaries or
1-14 extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality or if the
1-15 cemetery is located outside a municipality but within the distance
1-16 prohibited by Subsection (a) for the municipality. The application
1-17 must be filed with the governing body of the municipality.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-19 SECTION 3. 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.