By F. Brown H.B. No. 323 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts for offenses 1-3 committed on property owned by a municipality and located in the 1-4 municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 29.003(a), Texas Government Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (a) A municipal court, including a municipal court of 1-9 record, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction within the 1-10 territorial limits of the municipality and within property owned by 1-11 the municipality located in the municipality's extraterritorial 1-12 jurisdiction in all criminal cases that: 1-13 (1) arise under the ordinances of the municipality; 1-14 and 1-15 (2) are punishable by a fine not to exceed: 1-16 (A) $2,000 in all cases arising under municipal 1-17 ordinances that govern fire safety, zoning, or public health and 1-18 sanitation, including dumping of refuse; or 1-19 (B) $500 in all other cases arising under a 1-20 municipal ordinance. 1-21 SECTION 2. Section 29.003(b), Texas Government Code, is 2-1 amended to read as follows: 2-2 (b) The municipal court has concurrent jurisdiction with the 2-3 justice court of a precinct in which the municipality is located in 2-4 all criminal cases arising under state law that: 2-5 (1) arise within the territorial limits of the 2-6 municipality or on property owned by the municipality located 2-7 within its extraterritorial jurisdiction and are punishable only by 2-8 a fine, as defined in Subsection (c) of this section; or 2-9 (2) arise under Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code, 2-10 and do not include confinement as an authorized sanction. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.