By: Patterson S.B. No. 1673
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the adoption of certain plumbing codes.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 5B, The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-4 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 5B. ADOPTION OF PLUMBING CODES. (a) To protect the
1-7 health and safety of the citizens of this state, the Board shall
1-8 adopt the latest edition of [the Southern Standard Plumbing
1-9 Code,] the Uniform Plumbing Code, including its appendices and
1-10 installation standards[, and the National Standard Plumbing Code].
1-11 (b) In adopting the plumbing standards for the proper
1-12 design, installation, and maintenance of a plumbing system, a
1-13 municipality or an owner of a public water system shall [may] adopt
1-14 without substantial revisions the latest edition of the Uniform
1-15 Plumbing Code. The Board will determine what constitutes a
1-16 substantial revision and may make them effective statewide
1-17 [standards that do not substantially vary with rules or laws of
1-18 this state].
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.