By Rodriquez H.B. No. 1092
74R2965 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a municipal drainage utility system.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.044, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivisions (10)
1-6 and (11) to read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Benefitted property" means a lot or tract,
1-8 including an improved lot or tract, to which drainage service is
1-9 made available under this subchapter or that is capable of
1-10 receiving or that <and which> receives water, wastewater, or
1-11 electric utility service <from the municipality having jurisdiction
1-12 to adopt this subchapter and declare the drainage of the
1-13 municipality to be a public utility>.
1-14 (10) "Improved lot or tract" means a lot or tract
1-15 that:
1-16 (A) has a structure or other improvement on it;
1-17 or
1-18 (B) is used for activities that may impact water
1-19 quality.
1-20 (11) "Wholly sufficient and privately owned drainage
1-21 system" means a drainage system owned and operated by a person
1-22 other than a municipal drainage utility system the drainage of
1-23 which does not discharge into a creek, river, slew, culvert, or
1-24 other channel that is part of a municipal drainage utility system.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.