By Pickett H.B. No. 875
74R3340 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appointment of members of a municipal zoning board
1-3 of adjustment.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 211.008(b) and (d), Local Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A board of adjustment must consist of at least five
1-8 members to be appointed for terms of two years. The governing body
1-9 must provide the procedure for appointment. The governing body may
1-10 authorize each member of the governing body, including the mayor,
1-11 to appoint one member to the board. The appointing authority may
1-12 remove a board member for cause, as found by the appointing
1-13 authority, on a written charge after a public hearing. A vacancy
1-14 on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term.
1-15 (d) Each case before the board of adjustment must be heard
1-16 by at least 80 percent of the <four> members.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.