By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1270 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the designation of water quality protection zones in 1-2 certain areas. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 26.179, Water Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (c) This section applies only to those areas within the 1-7 extraterritorial jurisdiction, outside the full-purpose corporate 1-8 limits of a municipality with a population greater than 5,000, and 1-9 in which the municipality either: 1-10 (1) has enacted or attempted to enforce three or more 1-11 ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water 1-12 quality or control or abate water pollution in the area within the 1-13 five years preceding the effective date of this Act, whether or not 1-14 such ordinances or amendments were legally effective upon the area; 1-15 or 1-16 (2) enacts or attempts to enforce three or more 1-17 ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water 1-18 quality or control or abate water pollution in the area in any 1-19 five-year period, whether or not such ordinances or amendments are 1-20 legally effective upon the area.