By Menendez                                           H.B. No. 3307
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the acreage exemption from municipal subdivision and
 1-3     platting requirements.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 212.004(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The owner of a tract of land located within the limits
 1-8     or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality who
 1-9     divides the tract in two or more parts to lay out a subdivision of
1-10     the tract, including an additional municipality, to lay out
1-11     suburban, building, or other lots, or to lay out streets, alleys,
1-12     squares, parks, or other parts of the tract intended to be
1-13     dedicated to public use or for the use of purchasers or owners of
1-14     lots fronting on or adjacent to the streets, alleys, squares,
1-15     parks, or other parts must have a plat of the subdivision prepared.
1-16     A division of a tract under this subsection includes a division
1-17     regardless of whether it is made by using a metes and bounds
1-18     description in a deed or conveyance or in a contract for a deed, by
1-19     using a contract of sale or other executory contract to convey, or
1-20     by using any other method.  A division of land under this
1-21     subsection does not include a division of land into parts greater
1-22     than ten [five] acres, where part has access and no public
1-23     improvement is being dedicated.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
 2-2           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
 2-3     division of a tract of land that occurs on or after September 1,
 2-4     2001.  A division made prior to September 1, 2001, is governed by
 2-5     the law in effect at the time the division was made, and the former
 2-6     law is continued in effect for that purpose.