1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1394 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 10, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 10, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the authority of a municipality to require a building 1-9 permit for construction and renovation work on county-owned 1-10 buildings and facilities by certain counties. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 212, Local Government Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 212.903 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 212.903. CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION WORK ON 1-15 COUNTY-OWNED BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. 1-16 (a) This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8 1-17 million or more. 1-18 (b) A municipality is not authorized to require a county to 1-19 notify the municipality or obtain a building permit for any new 1-20 construction or renovation work performed within the limits of the 1-21 municipality by the county's personnel or by county personnel 1-22 acting as general contractor on county-owned buildings or 1-23 facilities. Such construction or renovation work shall be 1-24 inspected by a registered professional engineer or architect 1-25 licensed in this state in accordance with any other applicable law. 1-26 A municipality may require a building permit for construction or 1-27 renovation work performed on county-owned buildings or facilities 1-28 by private general contractors. 1-29 (c) This section does not exempt a county from complying 1-30 with a municipality's building code standards when performing 1-31 construction or renovation work. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-38 * * * * *