AN ACT
1-1 relating to excavation operations of employees of the Texas
1-2 Department of Transportation.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 3, Underground Facility
1-5 Damage Prevention and Safety Act (Article 9033, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) Excavation by an employee of the Texas Department of
1-8 Transportation on a segment of the state highway system is not
1-9 subject to this Act, provided that such excavation is[:]
1-10 [(1) less than 24 inches in depth; and]
1-11 [(2) no] more than 10 feet from the right-of-way line.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1099 passed the Senate on
April 22, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1099 passed the House on
May 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor