By Park H.B. No. 307
74R1134 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a municipality's authority to obtain a lien against
1-3 certain dangerous structures.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 214.001(o), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (o) If the notice is given and the opportunity to repair,
1-8 remove, or demolish the building is afforded to each mortgagee and
1-9 lienholder as authorized by Subsection (d) or (e), the lien is a
1-10 privileged lien subordinate only to:
1-11 (1) tax liens; and
1-12 (2) all <previously> recorded bona fide mortgage liens
1-13 attached to the real property before September 1, 1995, and before
1-14 the date <to which> the municipality's lien attaches.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.