1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 221
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 21, 1999; January 28, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; February 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the assessment of costs or fees by a county or
1-9 municipality related to the seizure, acceptance, impoundment, or
1-10 destruction of a dangerous dog.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 822.042, Health and
1-13 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (d) The owner shall pay any cost or fee assessed by the
1-15 municipality or county related to the seizure, impoundment, or
1-16 [and] destruction of the dog or, if it is delivered or surrendered
1-17 by the owner, related to the acceptance of the dog. The governing
1-18 body of the municipality or county may prescribe the amount of the
1-19 fees.
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,
1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26 passage, and it is so enacted.
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