Amend CSHB 3011 by adding the following section:
SECTION ____. Subsection (a), Section 217.042, Local
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The municipality may define and prohibit any nuisance
within the limits of the municipality and, for a nuisance the
definition of which does not address levels of emissions authorized
in an air permit issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality, within 5,000 feet outside the limits.
SECTION 2. Section 382.113, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 382.113. AUTHORITY OF MUNICIPALITIES. (a) Subject to
Section 381.002, a municipality has the powers and rights as are
otherwise vested by law in the municipality to:
(1) abate a nuisance; and
(2) enact and enforce an ordinance for the control and
abatement of air pollution, or any other ordinance, not
inconsistent with this chapter or the commission's rules, permits,
or orders.
(b) An ordinance enacted by a municipality:
(1) must be consistent with this chapter and the
commission's rules, permits, and orders;
(2) [and] may not make unlawful a condition or act
approved or authorized under this chapter or the commission's
rules, permits, or orders; and
(3) does not apply outside the corporate limits of the
municipality.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.