By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1366 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to delegation of duties of the tax assessor-collector and 1-2 county clerk in certain circumstances. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 11.37, Alcoholic Beverage 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The county clerk of the county in which an application 1-7 for a permit is made shall certify whether the location or address 1-8 given in the application is in a wet area and whether the sale of 1-9 alcoholic beverages for which the permit is sought is prohibited by 1-10 any valid order of the commissioners court. The county clerk may 1-11 delegate this duty in the same manner as provided by Section 1-12 61.313. 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Alcoholic Beverage 1-14 Code, is amended by adding Sections 61.313 and 61.314 to read as 1-15 follows: 1-16 Sec. 61.313. DELEGATION OF DUTIES OF COUNTY CLERK. (a) A 1-17 county clerk may file a written instrument with the commissioners 1-18 court of the county delegating to another county official the 1-19 duties imposed on the county clerk under this chapter. 1-20 (b) An action taken by a county officer acting under the 1-21 delegated authority of the county clerk has the same effect as an 1-22 action taken by the county clerk. 1-23 (c) During the period in which the written instrument is in 1-24 effect, the county clerk may withdraw the authority delegated and 2-1 the county clerk may perform a duty imposed by this chapter. 2-2 (d) The county clerk may at any time revoke the written 2-3 instrument. 2-4 Sec. 61.314. DELEGATION OF DUTIES OF TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR. 2-5 (a) A tax assessor-collector may file a written instrument with 2-6 the commissioners court of the county delegating to another county 2-7 official the duties imposed on the tax assessor-collector under 2-8 this chapter. 2-9 (b) An action taken by a county officer acting under the 2-10 delegated authority of the tax assessor-collector has the same 2-11 effect as an action taken by the tax assessor-collector. 2-12 (c) During the period in which the written instrument is in 2-13 effect, the tax assessor-collector may withdraw the authority 2-14 delegated and the tax assessor-collector may perform a duty imposed 2-15 by this chapter. 2-16 (d) The tax assessor-collector may at any time revoke the 2-17 written instrument. 2-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.