Bill Text: TX HB3513 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the power of certain municipalities to establish performance standards for underground utilities, landscaping, tree preservation and sign control in a neighborhood empowerment zone.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-04 - No action taken in committee [HB3513 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3513-Introduced.html
| By: Creighton | H.B. No. 3513 | |
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| relating to the power of certain municipalities to establish | ||
| performance standards for underground utilities, landscaping, tree | ||
| preservation and sign control in a neighborhood empowerment zone. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 378, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by the addition of a new Sec. 378.005 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 378.005. SCENIC ZONES IN CERTAIN UNZONED | ||
| MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In addition to other powers that a | ||
| municipality may exercise, a municipality to which this section | ||
| applies may establish performance standards for underground | ||
| utilities, landscaping, tree preservation and sign control within a | ||
| neighborhood empowerment zone. | ||
| (b) This section is applicable to an un-zoned municipality | ||
| with a population of 50,000 or more that is located in a county with | ||
| a population of 450,000 or more and includes within its | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdiction portions of a water supply reservoir | ||
| and lake that covers in excess of 20,000 acres. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
