AN ACT
1-1 relating to the enforcement of land use restrictions in certain
1-2 counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 203, Property Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 CHAPTER 203. ENFORCEMENT OF LAND USE RESTRICTIONS
1-7 IN CERTAIN COUNTIES [COUNTY WITH POPULATION
1-8 OF MORE THAN TWO MILLION]
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 203.001, Property Code, is amended to
1-10 read as follows:
1-11 Sec. 203.001. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter
1-12 applies only to a county with a population of more than 200,000
1-13 [two million].
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the Senate on
April 29, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the House on
May 10, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor