Bill Text: TX HB3782 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the right to remove property encroaching on areas owned or controlled by the Harris County Flood Control District.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3782 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3782-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 3782
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the right to remove property encroaching on areas owned
  or controlled by the Harris County Flood Control District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 360, Acts of the 45th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 1937, is amended by adding Section 2A to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 2A.  Right to Remove Property.  (a)  In this section,
  "district" means the Harris County Flood Control District.
         (b)  In order to carry out district purposes, the district
  may remove real or personal property placed on land owned by the
  district or land subject to an easement held by the district,
  regardless of when the real or personal property was put in place
  and without the consent of the owner of the property. The district
  must send notice by certified mail to the owner of property on which
  the district intends to act under this section. Not earlier than
  the 30th day after the date the notice is sent, the district must
  send a second notice by certified mail. The district may use
  existing civil lawsuit processes against the owner of the property
  to recover the cost of removing the property not earlier than the
  30th day after the date the second notice was received.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3782 was passed by the House on May 7,
  2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 134, Nays 11, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 3782 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 117, Nays 24,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3782 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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