By Palmer H.B. No. 948 76R4603 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disposition and use of a fine for the violation of 1-3 a county fireworks ordinance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 240.904, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) A fire department or fire marshal's office may enforce 1-8 this section. A fine collected under this section less any 1-9 mandatory state fees shall be deposited in the county treasury to 1-10 the credit of the county's fire-fighting and fire prevention 1-11 departments. The commissioners court may appropriate the funds 1-12 deposited under this subsection only to a fire department or fire 1-13 marshal's office in the county that has issued a citation under 1-14 this section. The funds may be used only for fire safety or fire 1-15 prevention purposes. 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, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.