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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the regulation of certain businesses using sanitary |
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sewer services of certain municipalities. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government |
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Code, is amended by adding Section 552.913 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 552.913. REGULATION OF CERTAIN BUSINESSES USING SEWER |
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SERVICES OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only |
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to a home-rule municipality located in a county: |
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(1) with a population of less than 200,000; and |
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(2) in which two or more municipalities with a |
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population of 75,000 or more are primarily located. |
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(b) A business connected to a sanitary sewer system not |
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owned or operated by the municipality in which the business is |
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located shall comply with the applicable sanitary sewer system |
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rules, including industrial pretreatment rules, of the |
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municipality providing the sanitary sewer service to the business. |
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(c) Notwithstanding any other law, a sanitary sewer rule may |
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be enforced against the business in the municipal court of the |
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municipality that adopted the rule. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |