By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 3090 75R7499 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the enforcement of a municipality's ordinances 1-3 regulating buildings or other structures. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 214, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 214.005 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 214.005. ENFORCEMENT. (a) A municipality may designate 1-8 a municipal employee or department to enforce an ordinance adopted 1-9 under this subchapter. An employee or department designated under 1-10 this subsection may exercise the municipality's enforcement power, 1-11 including any power to require the vacation, relocation of 1-12 occupants, securing, repair, removal, or demolition of a building 1-13 or other structure. 1-14 (b) The municipality may designate the employee or 1-15 department to enforce any other municipal ordinance relating to the 1-16 regulation of buildings or other structures and may delegate to the 1-17 employee or department any power the municipality has to enforce 1-18 the ordinance. 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.