Bill Text: TX HB2566 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate litter and mosquito control.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB2566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2566-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2566 |
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relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate litter | ||
and mosquito control. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 240, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 240.910 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 240.910. REGULATION OF LITTER AND MOSQUITO CONTROL IN | ||
CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a county | ||
located on an international border and adjacent to the Gulf of | ||
Mexico. | ||
(b) In this section: | ||
(1) "Illegally dumped litter" means litter dumped | ||
anywhere other than in an approved solid waste site, as defined by | ||
Section 365.011, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(2) "Litter" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
365.011, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(c) In addition to the authority granted under Section | ||
365.017, Health and Safety Code, the commissioners court of a | ||
county may adopt and enforce orders to: | ||
(1) control the disposal of litter and the removal of | ||
illegally dumped litter from public or private property; and | ||
(2) regulate the storage or abandonment of property, | ||
including tires and appliances, on public or private property that | ||
creates a nuisance or habitat conducive to mosquito breeding. | ||
(d) An order adopted under this section: | ||
(1) applies only to the unincorporated area of the | ||
county; | ||
(2) may require the record property owner to pay for | ||
the cost of enforcing the order on the property owner's land if the | ||
commissioners court gives the property owner 30 days' written | ||
notice of the enforcement action; and | ||
(3) may not regulate manufactured or industrialized | ||
housing constructed to state or federal building standards in a | ||
manner that is different from regulation of site-built housing. | ||
(e) This section does not authorize the adoption of: | ||
(1) zoning regulations not otherwise authorized under | ||
Chapter 231; or | ||
(2) building regulations not otherwise authorized | ||
under Chapter 233. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2566 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 14, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2566 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |