Bill Text: TX HB318 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to require a person to obtain a building permit for certain portable structures.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Left pending in committee [HB318 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB318-Introduced.html
| 88R979 MP-F | ||
| By: Cortez | H.B. No. 318 | |
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| relating to the authority of a county to require a person to obtain | ||
| a building permit for certain portable structures. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 233, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 233.902 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 233.902. PORTABLE STRUCTURE FOR PERIODIC SALE OF | ||
| RETAIL GOODS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (b), a county may not require a person to | ||
| obtain a building permit to construct, improve, or occupy a | ||
| structure used for the retail sale of goods not more than 60 days in | ||
| a calendar year if the structure is: | ||
| (1) portable; and | ||
| (2) smaller than 500 square feet. | ||
| (b) This section does not prevent a county from enforcing a | ||
| fire code adopted by the county or inspecting a structure for a fire | ||
| or life safety hazard as authorized by other law. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
