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.