Bill Text: TX HB2979 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to county authority to provide certain exemptions to restrictions on outdoor burning.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Referred to County Affairs [HB2979 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2979-Introduced.html
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| By: Hunter | H.B. No. 2979 | |
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| relating to county authority to provide certain exemptions to | ||
| restrictions on outdoor burning. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 352.081, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (f-1) The commissioners court of a county may provide | ||
| exemptions from an order adopted by the county under this section. | ||
| The exemptions may include any of the following: | ||
| (1) prescribed burns conducted by specific prescribed | ||
| burn associations; | ||
| (2) outdoor burning by specific state agency | ||
| landowners; and | ||
| (3) outdoor burning by private landowners who, as the | ||
| commissioners court in its discretion finds, demonstrate the | ||
| knowledge, experience, planning, personnel, liability insurance, | ||
| and equipment to safely conduct a planned prescribed burn during | ||
| the period during which burning is prohibited or restricted, in | ||
| accordance with prescribed burning conditions and standards | ||
| described by Chapter 153, Natural Resources 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, 2011. | ||
