By: Cain S.B. No. 833
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate public
1-2 nuisances.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 343.011, Health and
1-5 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) This section applies to the unincorporated area of a
1-7 county with a population of 50,000 [125,000] or more.
1-8 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-9 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
1-10 act that constitutes a public nuisance under Section 343.011,
1-11 Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that is committed
1-12 on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this
1-13 section, an act is committed on or after the effective date of this
1-14 Act only if an element of the act occurs on or after that date.
1-15 (c) An act that constitutes a public nuisance under Section
1-16 343.011, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that is
1-17 committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-18 law in effect when the act was committed, and the former law is
1-19 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. 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.