Bill Text: TX SB1462 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of subdivision platting requirements in certain counties near the international border of this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-11 - Left pending in committee [SB1462 Detail]

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  By: Lucio  S.B. No. 1462
         (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2011; March 22, 2011, read
  first time and referred to Committee on International Relations and
  Trade; April 5, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 5, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the enforcement of subdivision platting requirements in
  certain counties near the international border of this state.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to allow the state and
  certain counties to be affected parties in claims against
  unscrupulous developers who violate subdivision platting
  requirements under Subchapter B, Chapter 232, Local Government
  Code, since the state and counties may reasonably be expected to
  mitigate or ameliorate the conditions created by those developers.
         SECTION 2.  Section 232.037, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The attorney general, or the district attorney,
  criminal district attorney, county attorney with felony
  responsibilities, or county attorney of the county may take any
  action necessary in a court of competent jurisdiction on behalf of
  the state, an affected county subject to this subchapter, or
  affected [on behalf of] residents to:
               (1)  enjoin the violation or threatened violation of
  the model rules adopted under Section 16.343, Water Code;
               (2)  enjoin the violation or threatened violation of a
  requirement of this subchapter or a rule adopted by the
  commissioners court under this subchapter;
               (3)  recover civil or criminal penalties, attorney's
  fees, litigation costs, and investigation costs; [and]
               (4)  require platting or replatting under Section
  232.040;
               (5)  recover funds paid to the subdivider or an agent of
  the subdivider, with interest;
               (6)  freeze the assets of the subdivider or an agent of
  the subdivider; and
               (7)  void or rescind contracts.
         (e)  If the state or a county is a party to the claim, funds
  recovered under Subsection (a)(5) must be divided between the
  affected residents and the governmental entity or entities, with 50
  percent of the recovery to be paid to the affected residents and the
  other 50 percent to be paid to the governmental entity or entities.  
  Multiple governmental entities that are party to the claim must
  divide money received under this subsection equally among the
  entities.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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