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Amend HB 684 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) Strike lines 6 through 9 and substitute the following:
(a) The commissioners court of a county with a population of over 25,000 [250,000] or a county adjacent to a county with a population of over 250,000 may adopt a fire code and rules necessary to administer and enforce the fire code.
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 233.062, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The commissioners court of a county with a population of 250,000 or less that is not adjacent to a county with a population of more than 250,000 may not adopt a fire code that applies to:
(1) a building or other structure used by a person who holds a retail fireworks permit issued under Section 2154.202, Occupations Code, for the exclusive purpose of selling fireworks;
(2) a building or other structure used for an agricultural operation, as defined by Section 251.002, Agriculture Code
(3) the facilities or operations of energy transporters; or
(4) any activities related to the drilling, exploration including completion, production, or processing of oil or natural gas.