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By: Carona S.B. No. 1065
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the interval between internal inspection of boilers;
1-2 amending Section 755.026 of the Health and Safety Code.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 ARTICLE 1
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 755.026, Texas Health and
1-6 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) With the approval of the commissioner and the inspection
1-8 agency that has jurisdiction for the power [that] boiler, the
1-9 interval between internal inspections [of a boiler] may be extended
1-10 to a period not exceeding a total of 48 [24] months [for power
1-11 boilers]. For other unfired steam boilers or steam collection or
1-12 liberation drums of process steam generators, the inspection
1-13 interval may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the
1-14 [that] boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.
1-15 ARTICLE 2
1-16 SECTION 2.01 This Act takes affect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 2.02 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.