By Howard H.B. No. 473
75R2552 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the licensing of waste haulers by certain counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 368.012, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 368.012. COUNTY LICENSING AND REGULATION. To protect
1-7 the public health, safety, or welfare, the commissioners court of
1-8 a county [with a population of less than 100,000] may by ordinance:
1-9 (1) require a waste hauler who transports waste in
1-10 unincorporated areas of the county to be licensed by the county;
1-11 (2) establish requirements for obtaining and renewing
1-12 a waste hauler license;
1-13 (3) impose a license issuance or renewal fee in an
1-14 amount that generates annually the approximate amount of revenue
1-15 needed to fund the licensing program for a year;
1-16 (4) establish standards governing the transportation
1-17 of waste in unincorporated areas of the county;
1-18 (5) establish grounds for suspending or revoking a
1-19 waste hauler license; and
1-20 (6) prescribe any other provisions necessary to
1-21 administer the licensing program.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.