1-1     By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1708
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 2; April 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the imposition of a criminal penalty for a violation of
 1-9     a rule concerning the use of county parks.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 320.045, Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 320.045.  RULES; PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS.  (a)  Subject
1-14     to the approval of the commissioners court, the board may adopt
1-15     reasonable rules concerning the use of any park administered by the
1-16     board.
1-17           (b)  A person commits an offense if the person violates a
1-18     board rule adopted under Subsection (a).  An offense under this
1-19     subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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