1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to disputes concerning enforcement of deed restrictions in 1-3 justice court. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 27.034, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) Nothing in this section authorizes a justice of the 1-8 peace to grant a writ of injunction. 1-9 SECTION 2. The purpose of this Act is to clarify that the 1-10 authority that a justice of the peace is granted under Section 1-11 27.034, Government Code, in a deed restriction dispute does not 1-12 include the authority to grant an injunction. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 509 was passed by the House on May 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 509 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor