By Smith                                               H.B. No. 116
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to judicial review of a decision by a municipal board of
 1-3     adjustment.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 211.011(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Any of the following persons may present to a district
 1-8     court, county court, or county court at law [of record] a verified
 1-9     petition stating that the decision of the board of adjustment is
1-10     illegal in whole or in part and specifying the grounds of the
1-11     illegality:
1-12                 (1)  a person aggrieved by a decision of the board;
1-13                 (2)  a taxpayer; or
1-14                 (3)  an officer, department, board, or bureau of the
1-15     municipality.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.