By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1394 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of a municipality to require a building 1-2 permit for construction and renovation work on county-owned 1-3 buildings and facilities by certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 212, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 212.903 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 212.903. CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION WORK ON 1-8 COUNTY-OWNED BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. 1-9 (a) This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8 1-10 million or more. 1-11 (b) A municipality is not authorized to require a county to 1-12 notify the municipality or obtain a building permit for any new 1-13 construction or renovation work performed within the limits of the 1-14 municipality by the county's personnel or by county personnel 1-15 acting as general contractor on county-owned buildings or 1-16 facilities. Such construction or renovation work shall be 1-17 inspected by a registered professional engineer or architect 1-18 licensed in this state in accordance with any other applicable law. 1-19 A municipality may require a building permit for construction or 1-20 renovation work performed on county-owned buildings or facilities 1-21 by private general contractors. 1-22 (c) This section does not exempt a county from complying 1-23 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.