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1	1	By: Williams S.B. No. 621
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed February 2, 2009; February 2, 2009,
3	3	read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
4	4	February 4, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
5	5	5, Nays 0; February 4, 2009, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of
11	11	the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 10, Local Government Code, is
14	14	amended by adding Chapter 328 to read as follows:
15	15	CHAPTER 328. COUNTY PARK BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
16	16	Sec. 328.001. PURPOSE; CREATION. It is the intent of the
17	17	legislature that each county dedicating land for use as county
18	18	parks be encouraged to beautify and improve those parks through
19	19	measures including but not limited to improvements in or additions
20	20	to lighting, directional and educational signs, litter abatement
21	21	strategies, and landscaping and landscape maintenance policies. In
22	22	furtherance of these goals, the County Park Beautification and
23	23	Improvement Program is established.
24	24	Sec. 328.002. IMPLEMENTATION. The commissioners court of a
25	25	county may by majority vote elect to participate in the program. On
26	26	such election, the commissioners court shall designate one person
27	27	in the division of the county government responsible for the care
28	28	and maintenance of the county parks as the coordinator for the
29	29	program. The coordinator may solicit advice and assistance from
30	30	state and county agencies and private organizations in developing
31	31	and implementing the program.
32	32	Sec. 328.003. REPORT; ADOPTION. The coordinator shall
33	33	report to the commissioners court the coordinator's findings and
34	34	shall recommend an implementation strategy to the commissioners
35	35	court. The commissioners court may reject or adopt the
36	36	implementation strategy. If the commissioners court rejects the
37	37	strategy, it shall specify to the coordinator the reasons for such
38	38	rejection, and the coordinator shall develop a new implementation
39	39	strategy to present to the commissioners court within six months of
40	40	the rejection. On adoption of an implementation strategy, the
41	41	commissioners court may fund the program as provided in Section
42	42	328.004.
43	43	Sec. 328.004. FUNDING. The commissioners court of a county
44	44	electing to participate in the program may solicit and accept
45	45	bequests, donations, grants, and other money, goods, and services
46	46	from federal, state, and private sources to finance and further the
47	47	goals of the program but may not levy any tax or receive any
48	48	legislative appropriation to fund such participation. The state is
49	49	not liable for debts or other obligations incurred by a county in
50	50	implementing or planning to implement the program under this
51	51	chapter.
52	52	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
53	53	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
54	54	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
55	55	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
56	56	Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
57	57	legislative session.
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