1-1 By: Bernsen S.B. No. 633
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2001; February 12, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 1, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 1, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the authority of certain counties to prohibit open
1-9 fires on public beaches.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. The heading of Subchapter D, Chapter 61, Natural
1-12 Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 SUBCHAPTER D. COUNTY REGULATION OF PUBLIC USE OF
1-14 BEACHES [TRAFFIC AND LITTER]
1-15 SECTION 2. The heading of Section 61.122, Natural Resources
1-16 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 61.122. COUNTY REGULATORY AUTHORITY [REGULATION OF
1-18 TRAFFIC, PROHIBITION OF LITTER, POSSESSION OF ANIMALS ON BEACHES,
1-19 AND SWIMMING IN PASSES TO AND FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO].
1-20 SECTION 3. Section 61.122, Natural Resources Code, is
1-21 amended by redesignating current Subsection (d) as Subsection (e)
1-22 and adding a new Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-23 (d) The commissioners court of a county bordering on the
1-24 Gulf of Mexico or its tidewater limits, by order, may prohibit open
1-25 fires on a beach in the unincorporated area of the county.
1-26 (e) Regulation under Subsection (a) of this section that
1-27 prohibits vehicles from an area of public beach is subject to
1-28 Section 61.022 of this code.
1-29 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-30 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-31 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-32 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-33 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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