Bill Text: TX HB1263 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Thompson of Brazoria (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) | H.B. No. 1263 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; | ||
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Water & | ||
Rural Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1263 | By: Creighton |
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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 property. | ||
(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. | ||
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