Bill Text: TX HB3782 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the right to remove property encroaching on areas owned or controlled by the Harris County Flood Control District.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3782 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3782-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3782 | ||
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| relating to the right to remove property encroaching on areas owned | ||
| or controlled by the Harris County Flood Control District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 360, Acts of the 45th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 1937, is amended by adding Section 2A to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 2A. Right to Remove Property. (a) In this section, | ||
| "district" means the Harris County Flood Control District. | ||
| (b) In order to carry out district purposes, the district | ||
| may remove real or personal property placed on land owned by the | ||
| district or land subject to an easement held by the district, | ||
| regardless of when the real or personal property was put in place | ||
| and without the consent of the owner of the property. The district | ||
| must send notice by certified mail to the owner of property on which | ||
| the district intends to act under this section. Not earlier than | ||
| the 30th day after the date the notice is sent, the district must | ||
| send a second notice by certified mail. The district may use | ||
| existing civil lawsuit processes against the owner of the property | ||
| to recover the cost of removing the property not earlier than the | ||
| 30th day after the date the second notice was received. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3782 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 11, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3782 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 24, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3782 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
