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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 116 was passed by the House on May 8,
1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 116 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor