Bill Text: TX HB1263 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an order by the Brazoria Drainage District Number 4 to maintain certain infrastructure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1263-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1263 | ||
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| relating to an order by the Brazoria Drainage District Number 4 to | ||
| maintain certain infrastructure. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 991, Acts of the 74th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Section 5A to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| SECTION 5A. ORDER TO MAINTAIN CERTAIN INFRASTRUCTURE ON | ||
| PRIVATE PROPERTY. (a) This section does not apply to a property | ||
| owner that is a railroad that owns or leases: | ||
| (1) locomotives and freight rail cars; and | ||
| (2) rights-of-way used for the purposes of | ||
| transporting goods by rail between at least two terminuses. | ||
| (b) The district may order a property owner to clear or | ||
| otherwise maintain a canal, drain, ditch, or levee located on the | ||
| owner's private prope | ||
| rty. | ||
| (c) A property owner who receives an order under Subsection | ||
| (b) of this section may comply with the order by: | ||
| (1) providing consent for the district to perform the | ||
| clearing or maintenance described in the order; or | ||
| (2) performing the clearing or maintenance described | ||
| in the order. | ||
| (d) If a property owner who receives an order under | ||
| Subsection (b) of this section fails to comply with the order before | ||
| the 180th day after the date the order was issued, the district, if | ||
| the property owner does not deny access to the property, may enter | ||
| the property to perform the clearing or maintenance described in | ||
| the order. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1263 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 127, Nays 13, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1263 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 21, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1263 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
