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1	1	By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 535
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed January 19, 2017; January 23, 2017,
3	3	read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
4	4	January 24, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
5	5	Yeas 7, Nays 0; January 24, 2017, sent to printer.)
6	6	Click here to see the committee vote
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9	9	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	10	AN ACT
11	11	relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of
12	12	the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 10, Local Government Code, is
15	15	amended by adding Chapter 328 to read as follows:
16	16	CHAPTER 328. COUNTY PARK BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
17	17	Sec. 328.001. PURPOSE; CREATION. It is the intent of the
18	18	legislature that each county dedicating land for use as county
19	19	parks be encouraged to beautify and improve those parks through
20	20	measures including but not limited to improvements in or additions
21	21	to lighting, directional and educational signs, litter abatement
22	22	strategies, and landscaping and landscape maintenance policies. In
23	23	furtherance of these goals, the County Park Beautification and
24	24	Improvement Program is established.
25	25	Sec. 328.002. IMPLEMENTATION. The commissioners court of a
26	26	county may by majority vote elect to participate in the program. On
27	27	such election, the commissioners court shall designate one person
28	28	in the division of the county government responsible for the care
29	29	and maintenance of the county parks as the coordinator for the
30	30	program. The coordinator may solicit advice and assistance from
31	31	state and county agencies and private organizations in developing
32	32	and implementing the program.
33	33	Sec. 328.003. REPORT; ADOPTION. The coordinator shall
34	34	report to the commissioners court the coordinator's findings and
35	35	shall recommend an implementation strategy to the commissioners
36	36	court. The commissioners court may reject or adopt the
37	37	implementation strategy. If the commissioners court rejects the
38	38	strategy, it shall specify to the coordinator the reasons for such
39	39	rejection, and the coordinator shall develop a new implementation
40	40	strategy to present to the commissioners court within six months of
41	41	the rejection. On adoption of an implementation strategy, the
42	42	commissioners court may fund the program as provided in Section
43	43	328.004.
44	44	Sec. 328.004. FUNDING. The commissioners court of a county
45	45	electing to participate in the program may solicit and accept
46	46	bequests, donations, grants, and other money, goods, and services
47	47	from federal, state, and private sources to finance and further the
48	48	goals of the program but may not levy any tax or receive any
49	49	legislative appropriation to fund such participation. The state is
50	50	not liable for debts or other obligations incurred by a county in
51	51	implementing or planning to implement the program under this
52	52	chapter.
53	53	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
54	54	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
55	55	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
56	56	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
57	57	Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
58	58	legislative session.
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