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78R211 MXM-D

By:  Miller                                                       H.B. No. 238



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to regulation of plumbing performed outside 
municipalities and inside municipalities of fewer than 5,000 
people.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  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 2.  (a)  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 1 of this Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapter 791, 
Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.
	(b)  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over 
another Act of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, 
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted 
codes.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect June 1, 2003.