By Oliveira H.B. No. 1664 75R4585 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the imposition of a criminal penalty for the removal, 1-3 damage, or intentional concealment of signs or markers giving 1-4 information about the location of certain underground facilities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. (a) A person commits an offense if: 1-7 (1) the person without authorization from the owner or 1-8 operator of the facility removes, damages, or intentionally 1-9 conceals a marker or sign giving information about the location of 1-10 an underground pipeline, electric transmission line, telegraph or 1-11 telephone line, or other facility that is potentially hazardous to 1-12 the public health or safety; and 1-13 (2) the marker or sign gives notice of the penalty for 1-14 removal, damage, or intentional concealment of the marker or sign. 1-15 (b) An offense under this Act is a Class B misdemeanor. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.