1-1 By: Eiland (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 3736
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the applicability of procedures governing restrictive
1-9 covenants in certain residential subdivisions.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 201.001(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) This chapter applies to a residential real estate
1-14 subdivision that is located in whole or in part:
1-15 (1) within a city that has a population of more than
1-16 100,000, or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of such a
1-17 city; [or]
1-18 (2) in the unincorporated area of:
1-19 (A) a county having a population of 2,400,000 or
1-20 more; or
1-21 (B) a county having a population of 190,000 or
1-22 more that is adjacent to a county having a population of 2,400,000
1-23 or more; or
1-24 (3) in the incorporated area of a county having a
1-25 population of 190,000 or more that is adjacent to a county having a
1-26 population of 2,400,000 or more.
1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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