AN ACT
1-1 relating to abatement of common nuisances.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 125.001, Civil Practice
1-4 and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (c) Subsection (b) applies only to a multiunit residential
1-6 property, as that term is defined by Section 125.041, [as amended
1-7 by Section 1, Chapter 818, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995,]
1-8 that is located in a municipality [that has a population of at
1-9 least 440,000].
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-11 applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date
1-12 of this Act. Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-13 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-14 occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 56 passed the Senate on
March 2, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 56 passed the House on
May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor