1-1     By:  Cain                                               S.B. No. 10

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 4, 1997; April 8, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the authority of certain counties to adopt and enforce

 1-9     a fire code.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 235.001, Local Government

1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  The commissioners court of a county with a population of

1-14     over 250,000 or a county adjacent to a county with a population of

1-15     over 250,000 may adopt a fire code and rules necessary to

1-16     administer and enforce the fire code.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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