1-1     By:  Bailey (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)               H.B. No. 2270
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2001;
 1-3     May 7, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts of record over
1-10     health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1. Section 30.00005, Government Code, is amended by
1-13     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-14           (d)  The governing body of a municipality by ordinance may
1-15     provide that the court has:
1-16                 (1)  civil jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing
1-17     municipal ordinances enacted under Subchapter A, Chapter 214, Local
1-18     Government Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 683, Transportation Code;
1-19                 (2)  concurrent jurisdiction with a district court or a
1-20     county court at law under Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Local
1-21     Government Code, within the municipality's territorial limits and
1-22     property owned by the municipality located in the municipality's
1-23     extraterritorial jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing health
1-24     and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances; and
1-25                 (3)  authority to issue:
1-26                       (A)  search warrants for the purpose of
1-27     investigating a health and safety or nuisance abatement ordinance
1-28     violation; and
1-29                       (B)  seizure warrants for the purpose of
1-30     securing, removing, or demolishing the offending property and
1-31     removing the debris from the premises.
1-32           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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