1-1 By: Smith (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 116
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to judicial review of a decision by a municipal board of
1-10 adjustment.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 211.011(a), Local Government Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) Any of the following persons may present to a district
1-15 court, county court, or county court at law [of record] a verified
1-16 petition stating that the decision of the board of adjustment is
1-17 illegal in whole or in part and specifying the grounds of the
1-18 illegality:
1-19 (1) a person aggrieved by a decision of the board;
1-20 (2) a taxpayer; or
1-21 (3) an officer, department, board, or bureau of the
1-22 municipality.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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