By Flores                                       H.B. No. 1841

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the subdivision of land outside a municipality.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 232.001(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The owner of a tract of land located outside the limits

 1-7     of a municipality who divides the tract into two or more parts to

 1-8     lay out a subdivision of the tract, including an addition, [or] to

 1-9     lay out suburban lots or building lots, or [and] to lay out

1-10     streets, alleys, squares, parks, or other parts of the tract

1-11     intended to be dedicated to public use or for the use of purchasers

1-12     or owners of lots fronting on or adjacent to the streets, alleys,

1-13     squares, parks, or other parts must have a plat of the subdivision

1-14     prepared.  A division of a tract under this subsection includes a

1-15     division regardless of whether it is made by using a metes and

1-16     bounds description in a deed of conveyance or in a contract for a

1-17     deed, by using a contract of sale or other executory contract to

1-18     convey, or by using any other method.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.