By: Whitmire S.B. No. 524 73R3300 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a municipality to correct certain 1-3 violations of municipal sanitation regulations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 342.006, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The municipality in the notice of a violation may inform 1-8 the owner that if the owner commits another violation on or before 1-9 the first anniversary of the date of the notice, the municipality 1-10 without further notice may correct the violation at the owner's 1-11 expense and assess the expense against the property. If a 1-12 violation covered by a notice under this subsection occurs within 1-13 the one-year period, the municipality without notice may take any 1-14 action permitted by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) and assess its 1-15 expenses as provided by Section 342.007. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.