Bill Text: TX HB3884 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to regulate lot frontages on certain roads.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3884 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3884-Introduced.html
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| By: Biedermann | H.B. No. 3884 | |
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| relating to the authority of a county to regulate lot frontages on | ||
| certain roads. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 232.103, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 232.103. LOT FRONTAGES. (a) By an order adopted and | ||
| entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice | ||
| is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, | ||
| the commissioners court may adopt reasonable standards for minimum | ||
| lot frontages on existing county roads and establish reasonable | ||
| standards for the lot frontages in relation to curves in the road. | ||
| (b) A commissioners court may adopt reasonable standards | ||
| for minimum lot frontages on all proposed and existing roads in the | ||
| unincorporated area of the county if authorized to do so by the | ||
| qualified voters of the county at an election held for that purpose. | ||
| The commissioners court shall order an election under this | ||
| subsection on receipt of a petition signed by a number of registered | ||
| voters equal to at least 20 percent of the number of qualified | ||
| voters who voted in the most recent county election. The | ||
| commissioners court may not call the election on its own motion. | ||
| (1) Subsection (b) only applies to a county that: | ||
| (a) has a population between 30,000 and 40,000 | ||
| (b) borders a county with a population of 1.7 | ||
| million | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
