83R5038 SCL-D
By: Price, Flynn H.B. No. 2206
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to adopt a fire code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 233.061(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commissioners court of a county [with a population
of over 250,000 or a county adjacent to a county with a population
of over 250,000] may adopt a fire code and rules necessary to
administer and enforce the fire code.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.