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.

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