By:  Leedom                                            S.B. No. 260
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a municipal drainage utility system.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 402.044, Local Government Code, is
    1-4  amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivisions (10)
    1-5  and (11) to read as follows:
    1-6              (1)  "Benefitted property" means an improved <a> lot or
    1-7  tract to which drainage service is made available under this
    1-8  subchapter <and which receives water, wastewater, or electric
    1-9  utility service from the municipality having jurisdiction to adopt
   1-10  this subchapter and declare the drainage of the municipality to be
   1-11  a public utility>.
   1-12              (10)  "Improved lot or tract" means a lot or tract that
   1-13  has a structure or other improvement on it that causes an
   1-14  impervious coverage of the soil under the structure or improvement.
   1-15              (11)  "Wholly sufficient and privately owned drainage
   1-16  system" means land owned and operated by a person other than a
   1-17  municipal drainage utility system the drainage of which does not
   1-18  discharge into a creek, river, slough, culvert, or other channel
   1-19  that is part of a municipal drainage utility system.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.