By Crabb                                              H.B. No. 2900

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of a municipality and a county to

 1-3     regulate the subdivision of land in the extraterritorial

 1-4     jurisdiction of a municipality.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 242.001(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (b)  For an area in a municipality's extraterritorial

 1-9     jurisdiction, as defined by Section 212.001, a plat may not be

1-10     filed with the county clerk without the approval of both the

1-11     municipality and the county.  However, if one of those governmental

1-12     entities requires a plat to be filed for the subdivision of a

1-13     particular tract of land in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of

1-14     the municipality and the other governmental entity does not require

1-15     the filing of a plat for that subdivision, the authority

1-16     responsible for approving plats for the governmental entity that

1-17     does not require the filing shall issue on request of the

1-18     subdivider a written certification stating that a plat is not

1-19     required to be filed for that subdivision of the land.  The

1-20     certification must be attached to a plat required to be filed under

1-21     this subsection.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-23     applies only to a plat for a subdivision of land that is filed on

1-24     or after that date.

 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.