By: Elkins (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 3547
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2009;
May 8, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources; May 23, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an order for the closure of unregistered dry cleaning
facilities and dry cleaning drop stations by the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 374, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 374.2511 to read as follows:
Sec. 374.2511. CLOSURE OF UNREGISTERED FACILITY. The
commission may issue a notice of violation to the owner or operator
of a dry cleaning facility or dry cleaning drop station that is not
registered under Section 374.102. The notice must inform the owner
or operator of the nature of the violation and state that the
commission may order the dry cleaning facility or dry cleaning drop
station to cease operation if the violation is not corrected within
30 days after the receipt of the notice. If the owner or operator
does not correct the violation within the prescribed time, the
commission may order the dry cleaning facility or dry cleaning drop
station to cease operation.
SECTION 2. Section 374.2511, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a violation that occurs on or
after the effective date of this Act. A violation that occurs
before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
effect on the date the violation occurred, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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