Bill Text: TX HB712 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the responsibility for keeping fire-fighting equipment furnished to a volunteer fire department by a county in good working order.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB712 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB712-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the responsibility for keeping fire-fighting equipment furnished to a volunteer fire department by a county in good working order.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB712 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB712-Comm_Sub.html
By: Murphy (Senate Sponsor - Patrick) | H.B. No. 712 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 2013; | ||
April 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 2013, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the responsibility for keeping fire-fighting equipment | ||
furnished to a volunteer fire department by a county in good working | ||
order. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 352.005(e), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) The petitioner [ |
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equipment in good working order, [ |
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or replacements, and provide[ |
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with at least one emergency unit of fire-fighting equipment to be | ||
used while the regular unit is being repaired or replaced. The | ||
commissioners court may use an available truck or other equipment | ||
if it is unable to acquire a new truck or equipment for the purpose | ||
of building or equipping the fire-fighting equipment. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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