By Cain                                                 S.B. No. 10

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of certain counties to adopt and enforce

 1-3     a fire code.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 235.001(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The commissioners court of a county with a population of

 1-8     over 250,000 or a county adjacent to a county with a population of

 1-9     over 250,000 may adopt a fire code and rules necessary to

1-10     administer and enforce the fire code.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.