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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to municipal boundaries used to determine a cemetery |
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location. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 711.008(e), Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(e) For the purpose of determining where a cemetery may be |
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located under Subsection (a), the boundary of an area annexed by a |
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municipality is not considered to be a boundary of the municipality |
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if: |
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(1) no more than 10 percent of the boundary of the |
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annexed area is composed of a part of the boundary of the annexing |
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municipality as it existed immediately before the annexation; or |
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(2) the annexed area cannot be developed as |
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residential or commercial property and is primarily used for flood |
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control. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |