By Saunders H.B. No. 2759 74R8008 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing water and wastewater services to certain 1-3 areas that are annexed for limited purposes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.137 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.137. CERTAIN WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICES PROVIDED 1-8 TO AREA THAT IS ANNEXED FOR LIMITED PURPOSES. (a) A municipality 1-9 that owns or operates a water or wastewater system and that has the 1-10 authority to annex an area for limited purposes under this 1-11 subchapter shall make, not later than January 1, 1996, water and 1-12 wastewater services available to a point on the perimeter of a 1-13 tract of land that qualifies under Subsection (b). 1-14 (b) A tract of land qualifies under this section if, on 1-15 January 1, 1995, the tract had, for the previous five years, 1-16 continuously met the following conditions: 1-17 (1) the size of the tract was 100 or more contiguous 1-18 acres under common or affiliated ownership; 1-19 (2) the tract was annexed for limited purposes by the 1-20 municipality; 1-21 (3) the tract was located: 1-22 (A) within one-fourth mile of an existing water 1-23 or wastewater line of the municipality; and 1-24 (B) in the certified area to which the 2-1 municipality was required to provide water and wastewater services 2-2 under Section 13.250, Water Code; 2-3 (4) there was a preliminary subdivision plat covering 2-4 the entire tract approved by the municipal authority responsible 2-5 for approving the plat; 2-6 (5) there was a site plan for the tract approved by 2-7 the governing body of the municipality; and 2-8 (6) the tract had been permanently zoned as a planned 2-9 unit development. 2-10 (c) The water and wastewater services made available under 2-11 Subsection (a) must be adequate to meet the uses proposed for the 2-12 tract under the approved preliminary subdivision plat as of January 2-13 1, 1995. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.