1-1 By: Keel (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 2141 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997; 1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the seizure and sale of certain property by certain 1-9 municipalities. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 214.004, Local Government Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 214.004. SEIZURE AND SALE OF PROPERTY TO RECOVER 1-14 EXPENSES. A Type A general-law municipality or home-rule 1-15 municipality may foreclose a lien on property under this 1-16 subchapter: 1-17 (1) in a proceeding relating to the property brought 1-18 under Subchapter E, Chapter 33, Tax Code; or 1-19 (2) in a judicial proceeding, if: 1-20 (A) a building or other structure on the 1-21 property has been demolished; 1-22 (B) a lien for the cost of the demolition of the 1-23 building or other structure on the property has been created and 1-24 that cost has not been paid more than 180 days after the date the 1-25 lien was filed; and 1-26 (C) ad valorem taxes are delinquent on all or 1-27 part of the property. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *