By: Duncan S.B. No. 819
(In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2013; March 5, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
March 13, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disposal of demolition waste from abandoned or
nuisance buildings by certain local governments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 361.126, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission may issue a permit by rule to authorize
the governing body of a county or municipality with a population of
12,000 [10,000] or less to dispose of demolition waste from a
building if the disposal occurs on land that:
(1) the county or municipality owns or controls; and
(2) would qualify for an arid exemption under
commission rules.
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.
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