By Dutton H.B. No. 1815 74R4990 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of municipal ordinances in certain 1-3 areas annexed by a municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.0566 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.0566. FAILURE OF MUNICIPALITY TO PROVIDE WATER OR 1-8 SEWER SERVICES. (a) If a municipality fails to provide water or 1-9 sewer services to an annexed area before the 10th anniversary 1-10 following the date of annexation, a municipal ordinance or other 1-11 municipal regulation has no effect in the annexed area until the 1-12 municipality provides water and sewer services to the annexed area. 1-13 (b) Subsection (a) does not permit a municipality to 1-14 discontinue providing any other municipal service to the annexed 1-15 area. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an annexed area for 1-17 which the 10th anniversary of annexation occurs on or after the 1-18 effective date of this Act. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.