By Puente                                             H.B. No. 2310
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain notice provisions for violations of certain
 1-3     municipal ordinances.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 342.006(c), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  In a notice provided under this section, a [The]
 1-8     municipality [in the notice of a violation] may inform the owner
 1-9     [by certified mail,  return receipt requested,] that if the owner
1-10     commits another violation of the same kind or nature that poses a
1-11     danger to the public health and safety  on or before the first
1-12     anniversary of the date of the notice, the municipality without
1-13     further notice may correct the violation at the owner's expense and
1-14     assess the expense against the property.  If a violation covered by
1-15     a notice under this subsection occurs within the one-year period,
1-16     and the municipality has not been informed in writing by the owner
1-17     of an ownership change, then the municipality without notice may
1-18     take any action permitted by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) and assess
1-19     its expenses as provided by Section 342.007.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.