By Salinas H.B. No. 2340
77R6297 JMG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of county governments to regulate
1-3 subdivision development in the unincorporated areas of a county.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 232.0015(f) and (h), Local Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (f) A county may not require the owner of a tract of land
1-8 located outside the limits of a municipality who divides the tract
1-9 into two or more parts to have a plat of the subdivision prepared
1-10 if:
1-11 (1) all of the lots of the subdivision are more than
1-12 25 [10] acres in area; and
1-13 (2) the owner does not lay out a part of the tract
1-14 described by Section 232.001(a)(3).
1-15 (h) The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to a
1-16 subdivision of any tract of land belonging to the state or any
1-17 state agency, board, or commission or owned by the permanent school
1-18 fund, the veterans' land fund, or any other dedicated funds of the
1-19 state unless the subdivision lays out a part of the tract described
1-20 by Section 232.001(a)(3).
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 232.0015(g), Local Government Code, is
1-22 repealed.
1-23 SECTION 3. Section 232.0015, Local Government Code, as
1-24 amended by this Act, applies only to a tract of land subdivided on
2-1 or after the effective date of this Act. A tract of land subdivided
2-2 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
2-3 effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
2-4 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-5 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.