By Tillery H.B. No. 776
75R3746 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a municipal drainage utility system.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.044(1), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (1) [(A)] "Benefitted property" means a [an improved]
1-7 lot or tract, including a commercial parking lot, to which drainage
1-8 service is made available under this subchapter and that receives
1-9 water, wastewater, or electric utility service from the
1-10 municipality having jurisdiction to adopt this subchapter and
1-11 declare the drainage of the municipality to be a public utility.
1-12 [(B) "Benefitted property," in a municipality
1-13 with a population of more than 1,000,000 which is operating a
1-14 drainage utility system under this chapter, means a lot or tract to
1-15 which drainage service is made available under this subchapter and
1-16 which discharges into a creek, river, slough, culvert, or other
1-17 channel that is part of the municipality's drainage utility system.
1-18 Sections 402.053(c)(2) and (c)(3) do not apply to a municipality
1-19 described in this subdivision.]
1-20 SECTION 2. Sections 402.044(10) and (11), Local Government
1-21 Code, are repealed.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.