Bill Text: TX HB3477 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to enforce certain municipal building regulations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB3477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3477-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to enforce certain municipal building regulations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB3477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3477-Introduced.html
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By: Paul | H.B. No. 3477 |
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relating to the authority of a municipality to enforce certain | ||
municipal building regulations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 214, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 214.907 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 214.907. LIMITATION ON ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN | ||
MUNICIPAL BUILDING REGULATIONS. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
single-family residential structure. | ||
(b) A municipality that issues a permit to improve a part of | ||
a residential structure may not require the owner of the structure | ||
to comply with a municipal requirement that is: | ||
(1) applicable to another part of the structure that | ||
is not being improved; and | ||
(2) not necessary for the permitted improvement. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |