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      By Hamric                                       H.B. No. 3376

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of a municipality to require a building

 1-3     permit for construction and renovation work on county-owned

 1-4     buildings and facilities by certain counties.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 212, Subchapter Z, Local Government Code,

 1-7     is amended by adding Section 212.903 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 212.903.  CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION WORK ON

 1-9     COUNTY-OWNED BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.  (a)

1-10     This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8

1-11     million or more.

1-12           (b)  A municipality is not authorized to require a county to

1-13     notify a municipality or obtain a building permit for any new

1-14     construction or renovation work performed within the limits of the

1-15     municipality by that county's personnel or by county personnel

1-16     acting as general contractor on county-owned buildings or

1-17     facilities.  Such construction or renovation work shall be

1-18     inspected by a registered professional engineer or architect

1-19     licensed in this state in accordance with any other applicable law.

1-20     A municipality may require a building permit for construction or

1-21     renovation work performed on county-owned buildings or facilities

1-22     by private general contractors.

1-23           (c)  This section does not exempt a county from complying

1-24     with a municipality's building code standards when performing

 2-1     construction or renovation work.

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

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

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.