By Haywood S.B. No. 1886
76R10448 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of water safety on privately owned
1-3 lakes.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 31.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 31.004. APPLICATION OF CHAPTER. (a) The provisions of
1-8 this chapter apply to all public water of this state and to all
1-9 vessels on public water. Except as provided by Subsection (b),
1-10 privately [Privately] owned water is not subject to the provisions
1-11 of this chapter.
1-12 (b) A property owners association may adopt and enforce
1-13 reasonable water safety rules for boating, water skiing, swimming,
1-14 fishing, and related activities on a private body of water that is
1-15 owned entirely by the property owners association and members of
1-16 the association and to which there is no public access.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.