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Amend CSSB 282 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering the SECTIONS of the bill
appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 1301.052, Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1301.052. WORK INSIDE OR OUTSIDE MUNICIPALITIES. A
person is not required to be licensed under this chapter to perform
plumbing [on a property that is]:
(1) [located in a subdivision or on a tract of land
that is not required to be platted under Section 232.0015, Local
Government Code; or
[(2) not connected to a public water system and is
located] outside a municipality; or
(2) inside a municipality with fewer than 5,000
inhabitants, unless an ordinance of the municipality requires the
person to be licensed.
SECTION ____. In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
the text of Section 1301.052, Occupations Code, as set out in
Section ____ of this Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapter
791, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.