By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1696
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the regulation of the subdivision of land under the
 1-3     jurisdiction of counties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 232.003, Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 232.003.  SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS.  By an order adopted
 1-8     and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a
 1-9     notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the
1-10     county, the commissioners court may:
1-11           (1)  require a right-of-way on a street or road that
1-12     functions as a main artery in a subdivision, of a width of not less
1-13     than 50 feet or more than 100 feet;
1-14           (2)  require a right-of-way on any other street or road in a
1-15     subdivision of not less than 40 feet or more than 70 feet;
1-16           (3)  require that the shoulder-to-shoulder width on
1-17     collectors or main arteries within the right-of-way be not less
1-18     than 32 feet or more than 56 feet, and that the
1-19     shoulder-to-shoulder width on any other street or road be not less
1-20     than 25 feet or more than 35 feet;
1-21           (4)  adopt, based on the amount and kind of travel over each
1-22     street or road in a subdivision, reasonable specifications relating
1-23     to the construction of each street or road;
 2-1           (5)  adopt, based on the level of use by school buses and
 2-2     emergency medical services vehicles, reasonable specifications
 2-3     relating to the construction of public and private streets and
 2-4     roads;
 2-5           (6) [(5)]  adopt reasonable specifications to provide
 2-6     adequate drainage for each street or road in a subdivision in
 2-7     accordance with standard engineering practices;
 2-8           (7) [(6)]  require that each purchase contract made between a
 2-9     subdivider and a purchaser of land in the subdivision contain a
2-10     statement describing the extent to which water will be made
2-11     available to the subdivision and, if it will be made available, how
2-12     and when;
2-13           (8) [(7)]  require that the owner of the tract to be
2-14     subdivided execute a good and sufficient bond in the manner
2-15     provided by Section 232.004;
2-16           (9) [(8)]  adopt reasonable specifications that provide for
2-17     drainage in the subdivision to:
2-18           (A)  efficiently manage the flow of stormwater runoff in the
2-19     subdivision; and
2-20           (B)  coordinate subdivision drainage with the general storm
2-21     drainage pattern for the area; and
2-22           (10) [(9)]  require lot and block monumentation to be set by
2-23     a registered professional surveyor before recordation of the plat.
2-24           SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act to Chapter
2-25     232, Local Government Code, and other statutes, apply only to a
2-26     tract of land subdivided on or after September 1, 2001.  A tract of
 3-1     land subdivided before that date is governed by the law in effect
 3-2     immediately before that date, and the former law is continued in
 3-3     effect for that purpose.
 3-4           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.