1-1 By: Howard (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 473
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1997;
1-3 April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the licensing of waste haulers by certain counties.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 368.012, Health and Safety Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 368.012. COUNTY LICENSING AND REGULATION. To protect
1-13 the public health, safety, or welfare, the commissioners court of
1-14 a county with a population of less than 375,000 [100,000] may by
1-15 ordinance:
1-16 (1) require a waste hauler who transports waste in
1-17 unincorporated areas of the county to be licensed by the county;
1-18 (2) establish requirements for obtaining and renewing
1-19 a waste hauler license;
1-20 (3) impose a license issuance or renewal fee in an
1-21 amount that generates annually the approximate amount of revenue
1-22 needed to fund the licensing program for a year;
1-23 (4) establish standards governing the transportation
1-24 of waste in unincorporated areas of the county;
1-25 (5) establish grounds for suspending or revoking a
1-26 waste hauler license; and
1-27 (6) prescribe any other provisions necessary to
1-28 administer the licensing program.
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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