By: Hernandez, Murphy, Bohac H.B. No. 256
(Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2017;
April 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a city attorney to seek an injunction
to abate a common nuisance under the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.70, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The city attorney in the city where the nuisance
exists may sue in the name of the city for an injunction to abate and
temporarily and permanently enjoin it. Except as otherwise
provided in this section, the proceeding is conducted as other
similar proceedings.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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