Bill Text: TX SB2543 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the Ranch at Cypress Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Recommendations filed with the Senate [SB2543 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2543-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 2543 | |
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| relating to the powers and duties of the Ranch at Cypress Creek | ||
| Municipal Utility District No. 1. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Acts of the 71st Legislature, 6th | ||
| Called Session, 1990, is amended by amending Section 5 and adding | ||
| Sections 6B, 6C, and 6D to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 5. FINDING OF BENEFIT. (a) All of the land and other | ||
| property included within the boundaries of the district will be | ||
| benefited by the works and projects that are to be accomplished by | ||
| the district under powers conferred by Article XVI, Section 59, of | ||
| the Texas Constitution. The district is created to serve a public | ||
| use and benefit. | ||
| (b) The district is created to accomplish the purposes of: | ||
| (1) a municipal utility district and a water control | ||
| and improvement district as provided by general law and Section 59, | ||
| Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and | ||
| (2) Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that | ||
| relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, | ||
| or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or | ||
| improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads. | ||
| Sec. 6B. AUTHORITY FOR ROAD PROJECTS. Under Section 52, | ||
| Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may design, acquire, | ||
| construct, finance, improve, operate, maintain, and convey to this | ||
| state, a county, or a municipality for operation and maintenance | ||
| macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including | ||
| storm drainage, in aid of those roads. | ||
| Sec. 6C. ROAD STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS. (a) A road | ||
| project must meet all applicable construction standards, zoning and | ||
| subdivision requirements, and regulations of each municipality in | ||
| whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the road | ||
| project is located. | ||
| (b) If a road project is not located in the corporate limits | ||
| or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, the road | ||
| project must meet all applicable construction standards, | ||
| subdivision requirements, and regulations of each county in which | ||
| the road project is located. | ||
| (c) If the state will maintain and operate the road, the | ||
| Texas Transportation Commission must approve the plans and | ||
| specifications of the road project. | ||
| Sec. 6D. APPOINTMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEE. (a) In | ||
| order to carry out the provisions of Section 54.237, Water Code, | ||
| except as provided by Subsection (b), the district may appoint an | ||
| architectural committee for a subdivision located wholly inside the | ||
| district that does not have an architectural committee or an area of | ||
| the district not located in a subdivision. | ||
| (b) The district may not appoint an architectural committee | ||
| for a subdivision for which the governing provisions prohibit the | ||
| appointment of an architectural committee by the district or | ||
| otherwise. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to | ||
| introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this | ||
| Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a | ||
| copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, | ||
| officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished | ||
| under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has | ||
| submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality. | ||
| (c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed | ||
| its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives within the required time. | ||
| (d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this | ||
| state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect | ||
| to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled | ||
| and accomplished. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
