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. 1-33 * * * * *