By F. Brown                                            H.B. No. 323
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                                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.