By: Patterson S.B. No. 631
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the authority of a municipality to provide for the
1-2 repair and assessment of repairs of bulkheads or other structures.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 214.002, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 214.002. Requiring Repair, Removal, or Demolition of
1-7 Building or Other Structure. (a) If the governing body of a <Type
1-8 A general-law> municipality finds that a building, bulkhead or
1-9 other method of shoreline protection, fence, shed, awning, or other
1-10 structure, or part of a structure, is likely to <fall and> endanger
1-11 persons or property, the governing body may:
1-12 (1) order the owner of the structure, the owner's
1-13 agent, or the owner or occupant of the property on which the
1-14 structure is located to repair, remove, or demolish the structure,
1-15 or the part of the structure, within a specified time; or
1-16 (2) repair, remove, or demolish the structure, or the
1-17 part of the structure, at the expense of the municipality, on
1-18 behalf of the owner of the structure or the owner of the property
1-19 on which the structure is located, and assess the repair, removal,
1-20 or demolition expenses on the property on which the structure was
1-21 located.
1-22 (b) The governing body shall provide by ordinance for:
1-23 (1) the assessment of repair, removal, or demolition
1-24 expenses incurred under Subsection (a)(2);
2-1 (2) a method of giving notice of the assessment; and
2-2 (3) a method of recovering the expenses.
2-3 (c) The governing body may punish by a fine, confinement in
2-4 jail, or both a person who does not comply with an order issued
2-5 under Subsection (a)(1).
2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.